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To Benjamin Franklin from Chaumont, [c. April 1779]

From Chaumont

AL: American Philosophical Society

[c. April, 1779]4

Chaumont a L’honneur de prevenir Monsieur le Docteur franklin que le Courier de Bretagne part aujourdhuy a Deux heures et que si M. franklin a des ordres a faire passer a Nantes a M. Landais Commandant La fregatte L’alliance il est Bien important que sa Lettre soit avant deux heures a la grande poste et quelle y soit postée fidelement.

M. le Chever. de La Luzerne demeure au Marais Rue des Blancs Manteaus.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

4Probably written between April 20, when Sartine wrote BF of La Luzerne’s appointment (although he did not immediately reveal the new minister’s name) and April 28, or shortly thereafter, when Chaumont must have left Passy for Lorient (see Chaumont’s letter of May 2).

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