4. In WTF’s hand. Searle sent an acceptance later that day (APS), but he may not have attended. On April 7, below, BF told Dumas that Searle had avoided all “Communication” with him and wondered why. Searle recently had complained to Joseph Reed that BF (named in code) was a “declared enemy of private State loans,” (and also that he gave countenance and protection to the schemer “G”, i.e., Silas Deane) so it is possible he was deliberately avoiding him: William B. Reed, ed., Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed … (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1847), II, 455–6.