Letters about Science

American Commissioners to Jean-Daniel Schweighauser, July 22, 1778

Passi July 22 1778 Sir, Captain Robert Niles of the Spy at Brest, 9 has occasion for fourteen or fifteen Tons of Lead, which you will be so good as…

American Commissioners to Antoine-Raymond-Gualbert-Gabriel de Sartine, July 22, 1778

Heathcote Muirson to Benjamin Franklin, July 21, 1778

Forton Prison July 21st 1778 Sir The unfortunate situation I am in, I beg leave to make as an apology for my troubling you to peruse the following, unhappy, anecdote…

Musco Livingston to American Commissioners, July 21, 1778

Hezekiah Ford to American Commissioners, July 21, 1778

Jersey. July. 21st. 1778 Honoured Sirs In my Passage to Virginia, on Board a small Cutter, I had the Misfortune to be taken, and carried into Jersey. And as you…

Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas to American Commissioners, July 21, 1778

Jonathan Jr Williams to American Commissioners, July 16, 1778

Passy 16 July 1778. Honourable Gentlemen In consequence of the Remittance made to me by Mr. Delap of Bordeaux 2 I have written the inclosed Letter 3 to the officers…

Jean-Daniel Schweighauser to American Commissioners, July 16, 1778

July 16 [1778] Honorable Gentlemen! Beging leave to refer you to mine of the 9 inst. 1 I have now to inform you that Capt. Whipple at his return to…

Jean Baptiste Le Roy to American Commissioners, July 16, 1778

16 Juillet 1778 Messieurs Les Députés du Congrès sont instamment pries de tirer d’inquiétude un Pere et une Mere qui sont dans les plus vives allarmes sur leur fils, dont…

John Paul Jones to American Commissioners, July 16, 1778

[July 16, 1778] Gentlemen When I took Lieutenant Simpsons Parole I did not expect to have been long absent from America: but as circumstances have now rendred the time of…