Benjamin Franklin Papers

Dumas to the American Commissioners, 2 June 1778: résumé

Dumas to the American Commissioners4

ALS: American Philosophical Society; AL (draft): Algemeen Rijksarchief

<The Hague, June 2, 1778, in French: The French Ambassador expects, as I do, that you will send me a copy of the treaty in time for the Grand Pensionary to circulate it among the members of the States before they meet on July 1. You will see by the enclosed that war is about to break out in Germany; that will do us no harm.>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

4. Published in Taylor, Adams Papers, VI, 172–4.

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    Title
    Dumas to the American Commissioners, 2 June 1778: résumé
    Author
    Dumas, Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric
    Recipients
    American Commissioners
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Lee, Arthur
    Adams, John
    Date
    2 June 1778

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    “Dumas to the American Commissioners, 2 June 1778: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-26-02-0504. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 26, March 1 through June 30, 1778, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987, p. 571.]