To Benjamin Franklin from Graf von Schönfeld, 13 October 1783
From Graf von Schönfeld7
AL: American Philosophical Society
ce Lundy 13. d’Octobre 1783
Le Baron de Schönfeld a l’honneur d’assurer de ses hommages Monsieur Franklin et de Le prier de vouloir bien faire passer par son Paquet à Philadelphie, la lettre ci jointe pour le Sr. Thieriot.8 Il Le prie d’agréer ses excuses et ses remercimens.
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
7. The Saxon minister, who roughly a month earlier had sent BF an undated invitation to dinner on Thursday, Sept. 18 (APS).
8. For Thieriot, a Saxon charged with establishing commercial relations with the United States, whom Schönfeld had introduced to BF in July, see XL, 270, 350–1, 375–6, 555.