1From Benjamin Franklin to All Captains and Commanders of American Armed Ships, 7 February 1781 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Public Record Office, London It being authentically represented to me, that the worthy Citizens of Dublin, touched with the general Calamities with which Divine Providence has thought fit lately to visit the West India Islands, have charitably resolved to contribute to their Relief, by sending them some Provisions and Cloathing; and as the principles of common Humanity require of Us to...
2From Benjamin Franklin to All Captains and Commanders of American Armed Ships, [10 March 1779] (Franklin Papers)
Three LS : Yale University Library, American Philosophical Society, Joseph Y. Jeanes, Jr., Wilmington, Delaware (1955); AL (draft) and two copies: Library of Congress Franklin issued this passport for Captain James Cook, the famed British explorer, at the suggestion of the duc de Croÿ, who had paid the American minister a visit to discuss the matter on March 1. The pass was distributed to all...