Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Le Ray de Chaumont, 21 January 1781

From Le Ray de Chaumont

ALS: American Philosophical Society

Vlles. [Versailles] ce 21 Janver. 1780 [i.e., 1781]

Monsieur Le Docteur,

J’ay Receu hier des Nouvelles et des Remises de L’amerique,5 il est donc vray que ma fortune Sert a Ma patrie et a La vostre. C’est un titre pour Nous Rendre inseparables.

Je Suis avec Respect, Monsieur le Docteur, Vostre tres humble et tres obeissant Serviteur

Leray DE Chaumont

Addressed: A Monsieur / Monsieur le Docteur / franklin / A Passi

Notation: Le Ray de Chaumont Jan 21. 1781

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

5. For the news and the remittances (which establish that the year is indeed 1781) see Chaumont to BF, [before Dec. 10, 1780?]

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Le Ray de Chaumont, 21 January 1781
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    Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    21 January 1781

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Le Ray de Chaumont, 21 January 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-34-02-0211. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 34, November 16, 1780, through April 30, 1781, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998, p. 295.]

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