Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette to Benjamin Franklin, February 24, 1780

Versaïlles 24h february [1780]

Dear Sir

According to the letter your Grand son wrote me last Morning I have obtain’d from the Ministry that the four thousand Compleat Cloathes would be Carried on Board of the frigatte that is ordered to Carry me to America— 8 so that if they are at Rochefort, la Rochelle, l’isle d aix or l’isle de Rhé By the Second of the next month they will be taken on Board— I Could not tell to mr. de chaumont that I was Myself Going, and therefore have not been very particular about this affair But to tell him that there was not time to be lost in sending the said Cloathes— 9 Pray, my dear Sir, hurry on that Busines, and very friendly Believe me Yours

Lafayette