From Benjamin Franklin to Giuseppe Doria Pamphili, 18 August 1784
To Giuseppe Doria Pamphili
L:4 Archives of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide
Passy ce 18. Août 1784.
Mr. Franklin assure de son Respect son Excellence le Nonce, et lui envoye Copie de L’Instruction du Congrès qu’il a eu l’honneur de lui communiquer hier—avec une Traduction qu’il a paru desirer.5
4. Written by L’Air de Lamotte.
5. BF enclosed a copy, made by BFB, of the second paragraph of the May 11 congressional instructions (XLII, 222) and a French translation in the hand of L’Air de Lamotte. On Aug. 23 Pamphili forwarded the present letter and its enclosures to the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide. Pamphili wrote that he would assure BF that the Congregatio planned to ordain John Carroll as bishop, once Carroll provided more information about the situation of the Catholic Church in the United States, and that he would remind BF that the Congregatio was anticipating the arrival of two young Americans to be enrolled in its college in Rome: Jules A. Baisnée, France and the Establishment of the American Catholic Hierarchy: the Myth of French Interference (1783–1784) (Baltimore, 1934), pp. 125–6. Pamphili and BF had previously discussed both subjects: XLII, 336–7.