From Benjamin Franklin to John Adams, 13 March 1779
To John Adams
ALS: Massachusetts Historical Society
Passy, March 13. 1779
Dear Sir,
I hope you got well to Nantes with your Son.2 We sent you two Letters by yesterday’s Post, that had been deliver’d here for you since your Departure; the enclos’d came last Night.3 By Captain Landais’ Letters, I am afraid he will not be ready so soon as we were made to expect.—4 I have the honour [torn: to] be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant
B Franklin
Honble Mr Adams
2. For the Adamses’ journey see our annotation of their passport, March 7.
3. For JA’s recent correspondents see Adams Papers, VIII, 3–12, 395. On March 17 WTF forwarded the rest of JA’s mail (Mass. Hist. Soc.).
4. See Landais’ letters of March 3 and 10. The captain was still at Brest, whereas the Adams party was en route to Nantes where it expected to find the Alliance.