Benjamin Franklin Papers

Baron Staël von Holstein to the American Commissioners: Résumé, 5 October 1784

Baron Staël von Holstein to the American
Commissioners2

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⟨Paris, October 5, 1784, in French: When I received your letter from Mr. Humphreys, secretary of the Commission for Treaties of the United States of America, which I will forward to the king, I suggested that in order to save time, I also communicate some notion of what additions are being proposed by the United States. If you agree, I will send the dispatches with the Swedish courier, who is due to return here in a couple of days.3⟩

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

2. Published in Jefferson Papers, VII, 434. This letter is in answer to the commissioners’ letter to him of Sept. 28, described in the headnote to their circular letter addressed to Sousa, Sept. 9 (above).

3. After copying the present letter in his letterbook, Humphreys noted, on Oct. 8, that the supplemental articles were communicated verbally to Olof von Asp, secretary of the Swedish embassy, who passed on the information to the ambassador. Humphreys’ notes, which include the articles, are in Jefferson Papers, VII, 434–5n According to docketing on the commissioners’ Sept. 28 letter to Staël von Holstein, the ambassador forwarded it to Sweden on Oct. 11.

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    Baron Staël von Holstein to the American Commissioners: Résumé, 5 October 1784
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    Staël von Holstein, Erik Magnus
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    American Commissioners
    Date
    5 October 1784

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    “Baron Staël von Holstein to the American Commissioners: Résumé, 5 October 1784,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-43-02-0102. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 43, August 16, 1784, through March 15, 1785, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, pp. 163–164.]