Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from [Jean-Baptiste?] Vandenyver, 31 October 1780

From [Jean-Baptiste?] Vandenyver4

AL: American Philosophical Society

Paris ce 31 Octobre 1780

Vandenyver a Lhonneur dassurer Monsieur franklin de Ses tres humbles Respects et de Linformer que ce Sont Mrs Hope & Comp damsterdam5 qui ont envoÿés les Effets pour etre acceptés avec ordre de les Leur renvoÿer revetu de cette formalité ou a protest. Je serai tres reconnoissant a Monsieur franklin Sil veut avoir la bonté de me les faire parvenir pour que je puisse Satisfaire Mrs Hope par premier Courier.

Notation: Vandyniver 31. Octr. 1780.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

4. Or his younger brother Guillaume-François-Eugène, partners in the banking firm of Vandenyver frères & Cie: Lüthy, Banque protestante, II, 322. As the firm was representing the owners of the Flora (XXXII, 435n, 576), presumably the effects mentioned below pertain to her cargo.

5. The banking firm of Thomas and Adrien Hope, taken over in 1780 by their nephew Henry: IX, 367n.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from [Jean-Baptiste?] Vandenyver, 31 October 1780
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    Vandenyver, Jean-Baptiste
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    31 October 1780

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from [Jean-Baptiste?] Vandenyver, 31 October 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified April 12, 2018, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-33-02-0404. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 33, July 1 through November 15, 1780, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997, pp. 482–483.]

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