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46,149 lettersL’Orient 5th. Augt. 1782 We beg leave to trouble your excellency for information respecting the disposal of some Powder, taken in a Prize Consigned us. Believing a liberty is allowed…
Nantes 5 Aug. 1782. My dear Sir, We have been here above a fortnight, but I am sorry to find that there will not be a good opportunity of embarking…
Passy, Augt. 5. 1782 Sir Mr Edward Bridgen, Merchant of London, a particular Friend of mine and a zealous one of the American Cause, acquaints me that his Lands on…
Nantes 4th Augt 1782 Dr & hond sir This will be delivered to you by Mr W Burgess late a london Merchant but now bound to America. 3 In his…
Geneve ce 27 Juillet 1782 Mon cher Grand Papa Je suis très ètonné de ce que vous ne m’aves pas ecrit il faut que vos affaires vous en empechent car…
Dunkirk july 26th. 1782 Your Excellency will receive this by Mr Joly a Worthy Clergyman who has attended me during part of my confinement and who is gone to Paris…
London 26 July 1782 My Dear Friend, You will have heared before you Receive this that Mr T. Td. is appointed Secretary of State for that department to which the…
July 26th: 1782 Dear Sir Our Mutual friend the writer of the inclosed 7 wishes me to contrive that it may come safe to your hands. He wishes that he…
Nantes July. 25. 1782. Dear & hond sir. The inclosed Letter I recvd by this days Post from my House at L’Orient. 4 I am at same Time informed that…
Paris ce 25. Juillet 1782. Monsieur! J’ay entendû chez Monsr. Charles, Démonstrateur de Phisique, 1 un harmonica, apartenant au Sr. hulmandel, Professeur de musique, 2 on m’a assuré qu’il était…
Craven Street July 24th, 82 My dear Sir I have long diclinead(?) the thought of wrightg, but after, your Long Seilece—which has given me the great pleasure, to onse more…
Vs [Versailles] le 24. Juillet 1782 M de Castries a reçu avec beaucoup de reconnoissance l’ouvrage que Monsieur francklin a eu l’attention de lui envoyer; il a lhonneur de lui…
Passy, July 24. 1782 Sir, Inclos’d I have the honour of sending to your Excellency, Extracts from two Dispatches of the British Ministry, (one of them to the Commissioners for…
Passy, July 24, 1782. … In answer to your questions, Mr. Oswald is doing nothing, having neither powers nor instructions; and being tired of doing nothing, has dispatched a courier…
Passy, July 24. 1782 Sir, Being much oppress’d by the Heat of this Weather, I dare not attempt the Journey to Versailles. I therefore send my Grandson, who will affix…
Nantes July 23d. 1782 Dear & Honoured Sir I have Received your Favour of the 15th Inst. 2 by Mr Paradise and Mr Jones who arrived here last evening. I…
London 18 July 1782 Dear sir I have recd yours of the 18th, but not that per Mr Young, 9 I immediately set about procuring you the necessary Information Relative…
[July 17, 1782] A La Gloire du grand Architecte de Lunivers. d’un lieu éclairé ou regnent le Silence, la paix et La Charité La Loge reguliere des Commandeurs du Temple…
Convent St George Ghent July 17th 1782 Sir The inclosed Letter 7 which I regret exceedingly not having in my power to deliver in person, I onely had the pleasure…
Amsterdam 17 July 1782 Sir I had the honour of receiving your Excellencys of the 5th 2 which I shoud have acknowledged by return of post, but I defer’d doing…