To Benjamin Franklin from Achille-Guillaume Lebègue de Presle, 10 May 1781
From Achille-Guillaume Lebègue de Presle
ALS: American Philosophical Society
ce 10 mai 81
Jai lhonneur denvoyer a votre Excellence l’ouvrage de Scheele2 qu’elle m’avoit chargé de remettre a mr Turgot et que jai reclamé pour elle depuis la mort de ce Ministre.
Je prie votre Excellence d’agreer les assurances de mon respect
Lebegue De Presle
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
2. Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786) was one of the founders of organic chemistry and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. His treatise on air and fire was translated from German into French in 1781: Traité chimique de l’air et du feu (Paris, 1781). Scheele’s career is discussed in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, but that entry does not include a bibliography of his printed works.