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Vergennes to the Commissioners
Docno: PJA06d072
Recipient: First Joint Commission at Paris
Recipient: JA
Date: 1778-05-04
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[dateline] Versailles, 4 May 1778.
printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography
, 2:308 (French); 4:90 (JA's translation). Vergennes announced that JA would be presented to Louis XVI on 8 May and invited the Commissioners to dine with him on that day.
For JA's account of his presentation, see
Diary and Autobiography
, 2:309–310; 4:92–93. JA informed Arthur Lee of Vergennes' announcement and invitation in a letter of 5 May (MH-H: Lee Papers). The Commissioners acknowledged Vergennes' letter and accepted his invitation in a letter to him of the 6th (Dft, PPAmP: Franklin Papers).
printed:
JA, Diary and Autobiography
, 2:309–310; 4:92–93
.
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/
http://www.masshist.org/ff/