To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph (Jean) Dupas de Iden de Valnais, 5 April 1784
From Joseph (Jean) Dupas de Iden de Valnais
AL: American Philosophical Society
Monday the 5th. april 1784./.
Mr. de Valnais presents his Respects to Dtr. Franklin. He has the honor to inform his Excellency that Mrs. de Valnais is happily delivered this morning of a Son: Both are very well—4
Addressed: Monsieur / Monsieur le Docteur Franklin / Ministre plenipotentiaire des / Etats Unis de L’Amerique du N. / auprés de la Cour de France / A Passy—
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
4. The former French consul at Boston and his wife, Eunice Quincy, were social acquaintances of BF’s. They named their son Henry Quincy Joseph Dupas de Valnais, after his grandfathers: XL, 261; XLI, 42, 318; Edward E. Salisbury, Family-Memorials: a Series of Genealogical and Biographical Monographs … (New Haven, 1885), p. 321.