The American Commissioners to John Bondfield, 25 May 1778: résumé
The American Commissioners to John Bondfield7
AL (draft): Massachusetts Historical Society; copy: National Archives
<Passy, May 25, 1778: We thank you for your intelligence reports. Your bills on us will be paid when we have received and examined your accounts; please present the latter monthly so that we do not acquire more debts than we can pay, of which there is considerable danger.>
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
7. Published in Butterfield, John Adams Diary, IV, 116.