Letters about Science

Arthur Lee to Benjamin Franklin, April 2, 1778

Chaillot April 2d: 1778 Sir, It was with the utmost surprise, that I learn’d yesterday, that Mr. Girard was to set out in the Evening for America, in a public…

Antoine?, fils & Rey Gautier to Benjamin Franklin, April 2, 1778

Au Cap le 2 avril 1778 Monsieur Nous sommes forcé de vous temoigner le mauvais effet qu’ont produittes dans ce pays les reponses que vous aves faittes a divers négociants…

G., fils Vincent to Benjamin Franklin, April 1, 1778

St Malo 1° april 1778. Sir You have inclosed a letter from one Called John Johnstone 4 who Said to be an American, and now has the misfortune to make…

Samuel Tucker to American Commissioners, April 1, 1778

Burdeux April 1st. 1778. Gentlemen These with my due Respects on my Arrival may serve to inform your Honours, that after a very fatigueing Passage of forty two Days I…

Benjamin Franklin to Arthur Lee, April 1, 1778

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…

Benjamin Franklin to Conrad Alexandre Gérard, April 1, 1778

Passy, April 1. 1778. Once more, dear Sir, Adieu. Mr. Deane set out last Night. He will show you the Propositions. 6 They would probably have been accepted, if they…

Conrad Alexandre Gérard to Benjamin Franklin, April 1, 1778

Versailles 1 Avril 1778 Monsieur Les Lettres dont vous avez bien voulu me charger m’ont été remises par M. de Chaumont. Vos bontés pour moi me persuadent que j’ai beaucoup…

Philippe Taillet to Benjamin Franklin, March 15, 1778

[Late March, 1778] Le traité d’alliance qui existe entre les états-unis d’Amérique et la france, doit nécessairement ouvrir entre ces deux puissances des relations de commerce qui s’augmenteront et s’étendront…

Charles-Julien de Longchamps de la Blutière to American Commissioners, March 1, 1778

Ralph Izard to Benjamin Franklin, March 31, 1778

Paris 31st. March 1778. Sir I received yesterday the Treaty of Alliance, and the alterations that have been made in the Treaty of Commerce proposed by Congress, from the hands…