Adams Papers

From John Adams to Benjamin Franklin, 2 March 1780

To Benjamin Franklin

Passy March 2d. 1780

Mr. Adams’s respectfull Compliments to Dr. Franklin, informs him that Monsieur the Comte De Vergennes has appointed him next Tuesday to be at Versailles in order to be presented to the King and Royal Family.1 Mr. Adams will have the Honour to breakfast at Passy with Dr. Franklin, at an hour early enough to go to Versailles, which he supposes will be 8 oClock.

RC (PPAmP: Franklin Papers;) addressed: “His Excellency Benjamin Franklin Esqr.”

1. The presentation took place on 7 March; see JA’s first letter of 8 March to the president of Congress (No. 14, below).

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    From John Adams to Benjamin Franklin, 2 March 1780
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    Adams, John
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    2 March 1780

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    “From John Adams to Benjamin Franklin, 2 March 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-09-02-0004. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 9, March 1780 – July 1780, ed. Gregg L. Lint and Richard Alan Ryerson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996, p. 4.]

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