Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Ezekiel Edwards, 28 October 1782

From Ezekiel Edwards1

ALS: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Paris Octr. 28th. 1782.

Sir,

Sometime to morrow Morning I expect to set off for Nantes, and will have the pleasure to wait on your Excellency for any dispatches you may wish to Have forwarded— There is a Schooner at that place ready for Sea with the first wind, bound to Virginia—

I am most respectfully Your Excellency’s Obedt. Hhble. Servt.

Ezekiel Edwards

Hotel d’York
His Excellency B. Franklin Esqr.

1. A Philadelphia merchant who was a director of the Library Company, 1775–78: Herbert C. Bell, “The West India Trade Before the American Revolution,” American Historical Review, XXII (1916–17), 284n; George M. Abbot, A Short History of the Library Company of Philadelphia … (Philadelphia, 1913), p. 27.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Ezekiel Edwards, 28 October 1782
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    Edwards, Ezekiel
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    28 October 1782

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Ezekiel Edwards, 28 October 1782,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-38-02-0195. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 38, August 16, 1782, through January 20, 1783, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 252.]