Benjamin Franklin to Arthur Lee, March 19, 1775
Cravenstreet Mar. 19. 1775 Dear Sir, I leave Directions with Mrs. Stevenson to deliver you all the Massachusetts Papers, when you please to call for them. I am sorry that…
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Cravenstreet Mar. 19. 1775 Dear Sir, I leave Directions with Mrs. Stevenson to deliver you all the Massachusetts Papers, when you please to call for them. I am sorry that…
Philada. Dec. 12. 1775 Sir, By this Conveyance we have the Pleasure of transmitting to you sundry printed Papers, that such of them as you think proper may be immediately…
Philadelphia October 23rd 1776 Sir By this conveyance we transmit to Silas Deane Esq. a Resolve of the Honble. the continental congress of Delegates from the Thirteen United States of…
Paris Feby. 12th: 1777 Dear Sir We inclose this to Care of Messrs. Delaps hoping it will find you safe arrived in that City. 9 Nothing material has occurr’d since…
Friday, Feb. 13. 78 Messrs. Franklin and Deane present their Compliments to Mr. Lee, and acquaint him that they propose to send away the Dispatches on Monday next.
Passy, Feb. 23. 78 Sir, The enclos’d which you sent me contain’d a Letter from Mr. Hartley, in which he acquaints me that on the 17th. Lord North had made…
Passy March 3d. 1778. Messrs: Franklin and Deane, will be ready to confer with Mr. Lee, tomorrow at 11. OClock precisely. 6 Enclosed are the Dispatches which came by Mr.…
Passy, March 17. 1778. Dear Sir, One of the Messrs: Beaumarin’s of Bourdeaux some time since told me they intended to send a Packet every Month to America, on their…
Passy, April 1. 1778 Sir, There is a Stile in some of your Letters, I observe it particularly in the last, whereby superior Merit is assumed to yourself in point…
Passy, April 3: 1778 Sir It is true I have omitted answering some of your Letters. 7 I do not like to answer angry Letters. I hate Disputes. I am…
Passy, April 6. 1778 Sir Mr. Williams had Orders from Mr. Deane and my self to purchase and make up a large Quantity of Cloathing, and ship the same, in…
[May 17, 1778 4 ] Mr. Franklin is not inclin’d to sign this Letter to Mr. Grand, 5 1. because he does not know that any Inconveniencies have arisen from…
a Brest le 4. 7bre. 1778 Messieurs En Conformite des ordres que vous M’avez fait l’honneur de m’addresser le 15. du mois dernier 1 le Sr. Thomas Wilkinson a party…
Passy Octr 10. 1778 Dear Sir I have sometimes complained, that having no Place [appointed] for the public Papers, nor any Person to keep them in order, was [an] Inconvenience…
Fryday Morng. [November 27, 1778] Dr Franklin and Mr Adams present their Compliments to Mr Lee, and request that the Journey to Versailles 1 may be postponed to Sunday at…
Monday [December 28, 1778] 7 ¾ after 11. Clock. Dr Franklins & Mr Adams Compts to Mr Lee & inform him Mr Monthieu is here, and being bound to Nantes…
Passy Feb. [ , Start insertion, i.e. March , End, ]> 7. 1779 1 Sir I should be obliged to you to let Mr. Franklin take a Copy of our…
Passy March 13. 1779 Sir A severe Fit of the Gout, with too much Business at the same time necessary to be done, have prevented till now my answering yours…
Brest. March 24. 1779 Dear Sir I have this Moment the Honour of yours of 18. I am perfectly of your Opinion that We have yet a hard Battle to…
Passy, March 27. 1779. Sir “The offer you make of Sending me Copies Sealed and authenticated of all the Papers in your Hands” 2 is very satisfactory; and as you…
Passy, April 3. 1779 Sir As I had no Knowledge of the Gentleman, & he said he had lived in Virginia, I referr’d him to you, imagining you might know…
Passy may 3 1779. Sir I did write to the Gentlemen at Nantes concern’d in fitting out the Vessels for America, offering them the Alliance as a Convoy and order’d…
L’orient June 9. 1779 Dear Sir Your Favours of June 2d and 5th are now before me: that of 29 March, I have answered if I ever received it, for…
Passy Sept. [ i.e. , August] 17. 1779. 9 Sir I this day communicated to Mr. Le Comte de Vergenes the Letter you did me the honour of writing to…