To Benjamin Franklin from Silas Deane, [2 June? 1777]
From Silas Deane
ALS: American Philosophical Society
Monday Morning [June 2?, 1777]
Dear Sir
I send inclosed all the Papers that came To hand, also a Letter from Mr. Bingham5 by which I find the Cargo from Havre in the Ship in which Davis went passanger was arrived at Martinico and I hope by this the whole is safely Landed on the Continent. I am ever Dear Sir most respectfully Your very Humble Servant
S Deane
Hon. Mr Franklin
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
5. On June 7 the commissioners, in a letter now lost, answered the one from Bingham that Deane is enclosing: Deane Correspondence, pp. 81–2, 110. We assume that Deane had the letter by the previous Monday.