31From Benjamin Franklin to Genet, [1778 or after] (Franklin Papers)
AL : Library of Congress All the American Papers will be sent to Mr Genet this Evening. Mr Franklin sends the enclos’d four, for a Beginning. Addressed: A Monsr / Monsieur Genet / Bureau des Interprêtes / Versailles BF and Genet began exchanging newspapers and other information soon after the signing of the alliance: XXVI , 271n. This note could date from this or subsequent years.
32From Benjamin Franklin to Genet, 1 December 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Library of Congress I sent some Boston Papers, (as late as the first of October,) last Week, to Mr Vergennes. I suppose you saw them. They contain particular Accounts of the great Harmony between Count D’Estaing’s Fleet & the People of the Country. I never heard of Gen. Washington’s writing such a Letter as you mention, and therefore I believe the Story to be false. I have the honour to...
33From Benjamin Franklin to Genet, 10 February 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Yale University Library D: Franklin’s best Compliments wait upon Monsr Genet. He begs Mr. Genet would be kind enough to send him any Intelligence he may have received from America as likewise the Gazzettes that he can spare for 24 hours, If they contain any thing new & important. Dr. F. has received no News, except of the Loss of three Vessels, that were coming from America with...
34From Benjamin Franklin to Edme-Jacques Genet, 7 November 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from Frederik Muller & Cie. (Amsterdam) sales catalogue, May 3–7, 1909, p. 5. <Passy, November 7, 1778: Franklin sends him some letters of Drayton. > Head of the bureau of interpreters at the French foreign ministry and editor of their secretly sponsored journal Affaires de l’Angleterre et de l’Amérique : XXVI , 271n. Recently he had asked BF and his fellow commissioners for material...
35From Benjamin Franklin to Edme-Jacques Genet, 2 October 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS and copy: Library of Congress I received last Night, the two Pieces of Metal sent me by our good Friend Mr Bridgen, and handed to me by your Care. Please to accept my Thanks. If you can easily forward to him the enclosed Answer to his Letter, you will much oblige me. With great Esteem, I am Dear Sir, Your most obedient & most humble servant. In the hand of WTF . The preceding document.
36From Benjamin Franklin to Genet, 24 December 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Library of Congress If any News Papers should come to your Hands from London directed to Mr Benson, they are for me & I shall be oblig’d to you for sending them to me. I am, with much Esteem, Dear Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant Addressed: A Monsr / Monsieur Genet / Bureau des Interprétes / à Versailles “Benson” was the code name Edward Bancroft had adopted for his dealings with...
37Franklin or Arthur Lee (?) to Genet, [c. 26 October 1778] (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Affaires de l’Angleterre et de l’Amérique XII , part II , cahier LVIII , pp. ccxxv–ccxl On October 24 Genet wrote each of the commissioners asking a response to a number of articles in a New York loyalist newspaper. The Affaires in its cahier dated October 26 (but probably published somewhat later) printed three such responses. The third of these (pp. ccxl–ccxlvii) was a translation...