Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Cuming & Macarty, 1 November 1782

From Cuming & Macarty

ALS:8 American Philosophical Society

L’Orient November 1st. 1782

Sir

We are honour’d with your Letter of 26th. October Covering Mr. Hodgsons Letter and Captn. Houstons Bill on us for Ten Guineas.—9 We shall procure the information Mr. Hodgson desires, for the next post.— We return you Captn. Houstons Bill accepted by us payable at Mr. Vincens Banquer in Paris.— Captns. Cain and Josiah are out of Town but shall deliver your Letter to Captn. Deal.—

We are happy to find our distress’d friends so near releaf.—1 We are with great respect Your Excellencys Most Obedt. & most huml. servts.

Cuming & Macarty

Notation: Cuming & Maccarty 1st. Novr. 1782.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

8. Probably in William Macarty’s hand.

9. BF’s Oct. 26 letter is missing. Hodgson’s letter is dated Oct. 14, above.

1. Hodgson had probably notified Cuming & Macarty about the imminent prisoner exchange; see Hodgson to BF, Oct. 14.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Cuming & Macarty, 1 November 1782
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    Franklin, Benjamin
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    1 November 1782

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Cuming & Macarty, 1 November 1782,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-38-02-0201. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 38, August 16, 1782, through January 20, 1783, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006, pp. 260–261.]

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