Marie Silvestre Grand to the American Commissioners, 5 May 1778
Marie Silvestre Grand7 to the American Commissioners
AL: American Philosophical Society
Ce 5 may [1778]
Mme. Grand presante une requette a Messieurs Les Deputés assemblés pour luy accorder un jour pour luy faire l’honneur de venir Diner ches elle a commencer des samedy Prochain8 son demenagement ne luy ayant pas permis de le faire plutot.
Addressed: A Leurs Excellences / Messieurs Les Deputés / De Lamerique septentrionale
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
7. Mme. Ferdinand Grand.
8. The date set was the 15th. All the Americans in Paris were invited; “we were very jovial,” one of the guests reported, “and pleasure appeared in every countenance. After dinner, until six, there was dancing, card-playing and chess.” Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., 3d ser., LIV (1920–21), 108; see also Butterfield, John Adams Diary, II, 312.