To Benjamin Franklin from ——— Pinet, 22 March 1781
From ——— Pinet2
AL: American Philosophical Society
Versailles le 22. mars 1781.
Monsieur Pinet prémier Commis de la marine a L’honneur d’envoyer à Monsieur franklin La Lettre cy jointe qui est venue Sous Son couvert, de Granville.3
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
2. Pinet was in charge of the naval ministry bureau dealing with conscription (“classes”) and fisheries: Almanach de Versailles for 1781, p. 249.
3. Not found.