From Benjamin Franklin to Rudolph Erich Raspe, 4 May 1779
To Rudolph Erich Raspe
Copy: Library of Congress
Passy May 4. 1779.
Sir
I received the letter you did me the honour to write by Messrs. Waitz & d’Eshen.4 I happen’d not to be at home when they call’d on me; and they were abroad when I went to wait on them in Paris So that I have not yet had the pleasure of Seeing them;—but Shall be glad of an Opportunity of rendring them any Civilities in my Power on your Recommendation.— I repeat my Thanks to you for your Translation of born & Ferber’s tracts, which contain a great deal of observation that may be useful to America.—5 I hope you are easy & happy in England; being with much Esteem. Sir Your most obedient & most humble servant.
M. Raspe
4. March 26, above.
5. Baron Inigo Born (Ignaz von Born), Travels through the Bannat of Temeswar, Transylvania, and Hungary, in the Year 1770. Described in a series of letters to Prof. Ferber, on the Mines and Mountains … To which is added, John James Ferber’s Mineralogical History of Bohemia. Translated … with some explanatory notes, and a preface … by R.E. Raspe (London, 1777), which Raspe had sent BF in 1777: XXIV, 435.