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The Commissioners to the Comte de Vergennes
Docno: PJA07d141
Recipient: Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Comte de
Date: 1778-10-29
[dateline] Passy, Oct. 29 1778
[salute] Sir
We have the Honour to inform your Excellency that we are ready to execute and exchange the Declarations, concerning the Omission of the eleventh and twelfth Articles of the Treaty of Commerce, and to request your Excellency to appoint a Day to wait on your Excellency for that Purpose.1 We have the Honour to be with the most respectful Consideration Your Excellency's most obedient and most humble Servants
[signed] B. Franklin
[signed] Arthur Lee
[signed] John Adams
RC
Arch. Aff. Etr., Paris, Corr. Pol., E.-U., vol. 5; docketed in the left margin below the salutation: “Sujet des deux articles a suprimer dans le traite avec les Etats unis.”
1. Vergennes, in his reply of 31 Oct., set 2 Nov. for the exchange and asked the Commissioners to dine with him on that day (LbC, Adams Papers). For the French and American declarations, both dated I Sept., as well as a note on their exchange, see Miller, ed., Treaties
, 2:32–34. An unsigned and undated copy of the American declaration is in the Adams Papers (filmed under the date of [post 4 May 1778], Adams Papers, Microfilms, Reel 349). See also an explanation of the reasons for the deletion of the two articles in vol. 6:119–120.
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/