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Thulemeier to the American Commissioners: Résumé, 11 February 1785

Thulemeier to the American Commissioners9

LS and copy: National Archives

⟨The Hague, February 11, 1785, in French: The letter that you wrote to me in January, without indication of a specific date,1 reached me a few days ago. I transmitted to the king the offer to establish the ports of Emden and Stettin as free ports, and I await His Majesty’s orders, which I will hasten to make known to you. You will have received by now the counterproject, enclosed with my letter of January 24, and I earnestly hope that we can complete the work that has been the object of our common concerns.⟩

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

9. Published in Jefferson Papers, VII, 649–50.

1. The copy in Humphreys’ letterbook, dated Jan. 21, is summarized above. The minister forwarded to Berlin a copy of the now-missing LS, with a French translation, on the same day he wrote the present letter: Thulemeier to Frederick II, Feb. 11, 1785, Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz.

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    Thulemeier to the American Commissioners: Résumé, 11 February 1785
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    Thulemeier, Friedrich Wilhelm von
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    American Commissioners
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    11 February 1785

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    “Thulemeier to the American Commissioners: Résumé, 11 February 1785,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-43-02-0301. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 43, August 16, 1784, through March 15, 1785, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, p. 440.]

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