2661From Benjamin Franklin to Gabriel Johonnot, 15 February 1782 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you honoured me with dated the 4 Inst. & inclosing 4 Setts of Exchange on Boston for the Sum of one hundred and forty six Pounds Sterling, being the Amount of Advances on your Account. Herewith I return your Recet. for the 100. Louis I lent you that Sum being included in your Draft. As you kindly offer to take Charge of any Letters I may wish to...
2662To Benjamin Franklin from Stephen Marchant, 25 July 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society I recd. yr Excellencies Letter of the 10th Inst. which has gave me Infinite Satisfaction to find yr Excellency Approves of my Conduct in my last Cruize, I hope I shall Continue in yr Esteem as I mean never to Derogate from the honour of an American Subject having Greaved the Cutter and got every thing Necessary for Sailing I set out from Morlaix Road...
2663To Benjamin Franklin from De Grasse, 13 April 1783 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society Je Suis tres flatté que Mes Services Pour la Liberté americaine, m’ayent merité Les Temoignages flatteurs que Votre Republique a Bien voulu m’en donner Par l’Envoy De la médaille que Vous avez eu la Bonte De M’addresser Comme son Ministre aupres de sa majesté. Je m’estimeray toujours heureux D’avoir formè & Executé Le projet De la Conquette D’Yorck-town qui...
2664To Benjamin Franklin from Barbeu-Dubourg, 17 April 1779 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Je vous recommande avec instance La lettre cy jointe qu’une tendre Mere desire faire passer surement a son digne fils à Philadelphie. Elle est des Amies de Madle. Basseporte, je crois que cela suffit pour vous faire juger de tout l’interet que j’y dois prendre, et qu’independamment de ma mince recommandation cela suffiroit pour vous y interesser vous meme....
2665Thomas Simpson: Petition to the American Commissioners, 25 May 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ADS : American Philosophical Society <Pontaniou Gaol, Brest, May 25, 1778: I wrote you on the 8th about a very disagreeable affair, and have had no answer. My treatment by Capt. Jones constrains me to trouble you again. On the 20th he ordered me (the first time he had spoken to me since I left the Ranger ) to accompany a French officer to the Admiral’s ship. No admiral, I protested, had...
2666To Benjamin Franklin from Tristram Dalton, 22 July 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I am honor’d with your Favors of the 17 October last respecting the Compensation order’d by the good King of France, for Reperation of the loss of the Brigantine Fair Play, & did flatter myself, that there would have been no further Occasion of troubling or interrupting your more important Business, on this account, but that of asking Acceptance of the...
2667The Committee of Secret Correspondence to the Amerìcan Commissioners, 30 December 1776 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society; Haverford College Library; LS without postscript: Joseph E. Fields, Joliet, Ill. (1958); AL (draft ): American Philosophical Society; copies: Historical Society of Pennsylvania; National Archives (two) The military defeats that had followed consistently on the Battle of Long Island, and had brought the British so near Philadelphia that Congress had fled to...
2668To Benjamin Franklin from John Jebb, 15 August 1783 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Mr. Baynes the bearer of this Letter has conceived that I am honoured with a share of your confidence & friendship—& has sollicited from me an introduction to you. I am at a distance from him—and if I were to assure him that I had only the pleasure of being twice in company with you when in England, he might imagine that I underrated the nature of my...
2669To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas FitzGerald, 14 September 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Two ALS : National Archives; press copy: Library of Congress I arrived here yesterday after a passage of fourteen days in the Ship Betsy, John Fisher Commander bound from Liverpool to New York & Jamaica mounting 22 Guns and 84 Men a Letter of Marque captured by the Alliance Peter Landais, Commander. We left L’orient the 15th of August in Company with the Bonne homme Richard, Pallas, Monsieur...
2670To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Digges, 25 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania On the business of the purchase which I have wrote you about by every post save the last for four or five back, I have nothing now to say, as nothing new has arose: There has been another item from the person who has it in contemplation, “that the affair was properly attended to, that it requird deliberation, and the answer should be given as soon as...