Benjamin Franklin Papers

The American Commissioners to Vergennes, 19 May 1778: résumé

The American Commissioners to Vergennes3

LS: Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; AL (draft): Massachusetts Historical Society; three copies and transcript: National Archives

<Passy, May 19, 1778: We have received your letter of May 15 with its enclosure, and have forwarded copies of both to Congress.4 Justice, we have no doubt, will be promptly done.>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

3. Published in Butterfield, John Adams Diary, IV, 103 and discussed briefly in Taylor, Adams Papers, VI, 122 n.

4. With the preceding letter.

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    Franklin Papers
    Title
    The American Commissioners to Vergennes, 19 May 1778: résumé
    Authors
    American Commissioners
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Lee, Arthur
    Adams, John
    Recipient
    Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de
    Date
    19 May 1778

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    “The American Commissioners to Vergennes, 19 May 1778: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-26-02-0443. [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. 506.]