From Benjamin Franklin to John Adams with Adams’ Reply, [after 2 January 1779]
To John Adams with Adams’ Reply
AL: American Philosophical Society
[after January 2, 1779]3
Sir,
Please to send me Mr Williams’s Letter that objects to the Clothing furnish’d by Mr Monthieu.
Also all the Papers you have relating to his Accounts—
In John Adams’ hand: Dr Franklin must be so good as to send somebody to search for these Papers— Mr Adams has no more the Custody of them than Dr Franklin and never will have.
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
3. This request was prompted by Lee’s letter of Jan. 2. As far as we know, there was no such letter from JW.