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John Adams to Benjamin Franklin, December 8, 1779
Ferrol Decr 8. 1779 Sir I have the Honour to inform your Excellency, that Congress, having judged it proper to appoint me to a new Mission in Europe I embarked…
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Benjamin Franklin to Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, December 8, 1779
Passy, Dec. 8. 1779. Sir, As Baron de Holtzendorff has thought fit to trouble your Excellency with a Memorial to me, 9 relating to his affairs and complains highly as…
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Benjamin Franklin to Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, December 8, 1779
Dec. 8. [1779] Dear Sir I am much oblig’d by what you have said at Vs. 7 Enclos’d is the Speech. We just now hear, 8 that a Vessel is…
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John Torris to Benjamin Franklin, December 7, 1779
Dunkerque 7th. Decr. 1779 Honnd. Sir I have seen with Mr. Coffyn the Petition, addressed to your Excellency by one Wam. Power a Prisonner of the Black Prince Taken on…
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Antoine-Raymond-Gualbert-Gabriel de Sartine to Benjamin Franklin, December 7, 1779
à Versailles 7 Xbre. 1779. J’ai reçu, Monsieur, avec la lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’écrire le 6. de ce mois, celles qui y etoient jointes par M.…
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Jacques, Elsevier, T. A., & Rocquette, Pieter Th Rocquette to Benjamin Franklin, December 7, 1779
Rotterdam 7 decemb 1779. Sir! Your much esteemed letter of the 4 augt: 1 duely reach’d us, we observed there in with pleasure the receit of the two parcells we…
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Richard Norway to Benjamin Franklin, December 7, 1779
Alincon Decr the 7th 1779 Most Noble Lord Pardon me I took the Libartey to Truble Your Lordship some time aGoe with a Letter a Liburty I hope Did not…
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Patrick Dowlin to Benjamin Franklin, December 7, 1779
Dunkerque the 7th. December 1779./. Honnoured Sir We beg Leave to Express to your Excellency in the Warmest manner, our affliction in Seeing our Worthy Friend & armateur, Mr. John…
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Benjamin Vaughan to Benjamin Franklin, January 1, 1777
Friday morn. [before December 7, 1779] My dearest sir, Before you open the collection of your writings, I must entreat you to hear a few words of apology. My first…
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Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette to Benjamin Franklin, December 6, 1779
Monday Evening [December 6, 1779] 6 Dear Sir I told what you know as Coming from Myself, and the Answer has been that some thing would be done that way—being…