Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Frédéric Le Mesle, 31 July 1777: résumé

From Frédéric Le Mesle2

ALS: American Philosophical Society

<Dieppe, July 31, 1777, in French: I send you some verses in praise of our brave islanders. If you think them worth offering to the insurgent brethren, nothing more glorious could happen to me. The truth is so satisfying to an honest soul that my verses cost me nothing.>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

2. Or possibly Le Merle; his “r” and “s” are indistinguishable. He signs himself as an inhabitant of St. Domingue.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Frédéric Le Mesle, 31 July 1777: résumé
    Author
    Le Mesle, Frédéric
    Recipient
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    31 July 1777

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Frédéric Le Mesle, 31 July 1777: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-24-02-0295. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 24, May 1 through September 30, 1777, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984, pp. 380–381.]