Dumas to the American Commissioners, 19 December 1777
Dumas to the American Commissioners
Letterbook summary:5 Algemeen Rijksarchief, The Hague
Lahaie 19e. Dec. 1777
Repondu à la Lettre de Mr. A. Lee, du 8. Extrait de la Lettre de Mr. Stey[?] du 17. et de LLF [La Lande et Fynje] du 15. Messagers d’Etat envoyés dans les provinces et generalité &c.6
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
5. We have expanded his abbreviations. The names in the second sentence are virtually illegible.
6. The States General, he wrote the committee for foreign affairs on the 19th, sent messengers to all the provinces, undoubtedly to carry the news of Saratoga and to suggest the probable consequences in Europe. Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, II, 451.