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The American Commissioners to Sousa Coutinho: Résumé, 30 November 1784

The American Commissioners to Sousa Coutinho8

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⟨Passy, November 30, 1784: We received from your secretary the extract of the letter from Monsieur de Sa of October 24.1 Conformable to the desires of Her Majesty, we enclose a draft of a project of a treaty of amity and commerce to be concluded between our two countries.2 If this project is acceptable and Her Majesty sends you power to conclude, we are ready to sign such a treaty. If your court has any objections or alterations to propose, we will consider them.⟩

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

8. Published in Adams Papers, XVI, 437–8; Jefferson Papers, VII, 551.

9. In Humphreys’ letterbook.

1. See BF to JA, Nov. 15.

2. Humphreys noted here that they sent the same draft as had been sent to Thulemeier.

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    The American Commissioners to Sousa Coutinho: Résumé, 30 November 1784
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    30 November 1784

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    “The American Commissioners to Sousa Coutinho: Résumé, 30 November 1784,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-43-02-0201. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 43, August 16, 1784, through March 15, 1785, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, p. 321.]

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