Benjamin Franklin Papers

The American Commissioners to Vergennes, 4 June 1778: résumé

The American Commissioners to Vergennes7

ALS:8 Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; AL (draft): Massachusetts Historical Society; copy: National Archives

<Passy, June 4, 1778: We enclose the copy of a letter from Capt. Whipple,9 which contains all the intelligence he brought.>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

7. Published in Butterfield, John Adams Diary, IV, 127.

8. In Arthur Lee’s hand, signed by him and Adams.

9. To BF above, May 31.

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    Title
    The American Commissioners to Vergennes, 4 June 1778: résumé
    Authors
    American Commissioners
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Lee, Arthur
    Adams, John
    Recipient
    Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de
    Date
    4 June 1778

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    “The American Commissioners to Vergennes, 4 June 1778: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-26-02-0520. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 26, March 1 through June 30, 1778, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987, p. 584.]