To Benjamin Franklin from Robert Morris, 4 November 1783
From Robert Morris
LS: American Philosophical Society; copy: Library of Congress
Office of Finance 4th. Novr. 1783
Sir,
I do myself the Honor to enclose another Copy of the Ratification of Congress to the Contract with the french Court of the sixteenth of July 1782 which is dated the twenty second Day of January last also the Ratification of the Contract of the twenty fifth of February last which is dated on the last Day of October—7 These Pieces will go by the Washington Packet and I hope that you may receive them safely and soon.8
I am Sir Your most Obedient and Humble Servant
Robt Morris
His Excellency Benjamin Franklin Esqr.—
7. For the July 16, 1782, contract, ratified on Jan. 22, 1783, see XXXVII, 633–9. Congress had ratified the Feb. 25, 1783, contract on Oct. 31: XXXIX, 301n.
8. The General Washington, Capt. Joshua Barney, sailed c. Nov. 10. Among the passengers were John Paul Jones, William Jackson, Pierre-Charles L’Enfant (XXVI, 144n), and Louis Lebègue de Presle Duportail (XXIII, 93–4): Jackson to BF, Dec. 3 (below); Morris Papers, VIII, 646n.