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Benjamin Franklin to Ulrich, baron de Thun, April 24, 1782
Passy, April 24. 1782. Sir, No Person of the Description given has hitherto applied to me. If he appears here, I shall certainly cause him to be arrested, and give…
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Benjamin Franklin to John Jay, April 24, 1782
Passy, Apl. 24. 1782. Dear Sir The Prince de Massaran, 2 being so good as to desire carrying a Letter to you, I sit down to write you a few…
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Benjamin Franklin to the Comte de Creutz, April 24, 1782
Passy, April 24. 1782.— Sir, I find that I have Powers to treat and conclude in the Affair you did me the honour yesterday of proposing to me. 7 I…
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Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes to Benjamin Franklin, April 23, 1782
À Versailles le 23 Avril 1782. Monsieur le Bon. de Bloôme, Monsieur, vint de m’addresser le mémoire ci-joint, 5 et le Seul usage que je puis en faire, c’est de…
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Franklin Read to Benjamin Franklin, April 19, 1782
Cape Francoys 6 Aprill 19th. 1782— Hond. Sir I have not had it in my Power to give You aney Acount of my Procedings relative to what you recomended me…
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Benjamin Franklin to Margaret Stevenson, April 19, 1782
Paris, April 19. 1782 I wrote to you, my dear dear Friends, very lately, 3 and directed my Letter to Cheem in Surrey. Mr Whitefoord tells me that you are…
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Benjamin Franklin to Silas Deane, April 19, 1782
Passy, April 19. 1782. Sir, I received the Letter you did me the honour to write to me the 30th. past, and will write to the purpose you desire respecting…
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Jonathan Jr Williams to Benjamin Franklin, April 18, 1782
Nantes April 18. 1782 Dear & hond sir. I cannot account for the delay of the seeds; in order to get them expeditiously to you I addressed them to a…
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Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix, marquis de Castries to Benjamin Franklin, April 18, 1782
Versailles le 18 avril 1782. J’ai l’honneur Monsieur, de Vous envoyer une liste de trois americains pris sur batimens de cette Nation et qui sont revenus d’angleterre sur le Paquebot…
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Benjamin Franklin to William Petty, Earl of Shelburne, April 18, 1782
Passy Apl. 18. 1782. My Lord, I have received the Letter your Lordship did me the honour of writing to me the 6th. Instant. I congratulate you on your new…
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Robert Morris to Benjamin Franklin, April 17, 1782
Office of Finance, Philadelphia, April 17th., 1782. Sir, In consequence of the communications made to me by his Excellency the Chevalier de La Luzerne since his return from Virga., 2…
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Richard Oswald to Benjamin Franklin, April 16, 1782
Paris 16th April 1782. Sir, I have the honour of yours 9 by the Bearer and shall be sure to wait of you tomorrow at half past Eight—and am with…
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Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas to Benjamin Franklin, April 15, 1782
Amsterdam 15e. Avril 1782 Monsieur, Enfin j’ai le plaisir de vous féliciter, avec une certitude parfaite, de la reconnoissance de l’Indépendance Américaine par cette République: car je ne puis plus…
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Benjamin Franklin to Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, April 15, 1782
Passy, April 15. 1782. Sir, An English Nobleman, Lord Cholmondely, lately returning from Italy, called upon me here at the time when we receiv’d the News of the first Resolutions…
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Benjamin Franklin to Robert R Livingston, April 12, 1782
Passy Apl. 12. 1782. Sir, Being at Court on Tuesday, I learnt from the Dutch Minister, 2 that the new English Ministry have offer’d thro’ the Ministers of Russia, a…
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Benjamin Franklin to Henry Laurens, April 12, 1782
Passy, Apl. 12. 1782. Sir, I should sooner have paid my Respects to you by Letter if I had not till lately expected you here, as I understood it to…
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Thomas Barclay to Benjamin Franklin, April 11, 1782
Amsterdam, 11th. April 1782 Sir I had the honour of writing to your Excellency the 23d. of last Month from Ghent, since which Nothing has arisen of Consequence enough to…
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Michel-René Hilliard d’Auberteuil to Benjamin Franklin, April 10, 1782
A Paris le 10e. Avril 1782 Monsieur Je prends la liberté d’Envoyer à votre éxcellence la premiere épreuve de la 3e. partie de mes Essais 6 d’après la permission que…
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Samuel Courtauld to Benjamin Franklin, April 10, 1782
Paris 10 April 1782 Sir I have the honor to acquaint you my departure is put off ’till Sunday next, being under the necessity of returning to Versailles tomorrow for…
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Henry Wyld to Benjamin Franklin, April 9, 1782
Hatherlow 9th April 1782 Most excellent Sir The Company I represented to your Excellency together with my self, desire to represent ourselves to you, in terms of the highest respect…