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20 July 1778

Original paper slip text:20 July 1778.

Passy, France

Original paper slip text:Passy

Commissioners at Paris, 1st U.S. Joint Commission

Original paper slip text:Commissioners at Paris, 1st U.S. Joint Commission

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John Adams

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Benjamin Franklin

Original paper slip text:Benjamin Franklin,

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Arthur Lee

Original paper slip text:Arthur Lee)

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Henry Laurens

Original paper slip text:the President of Congress,

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with 2 enclosures:
Antoine Raymond Jean Gualbert Gabriel de Sartine

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Commissioners at Paris, 1st U.S. Joint Commission

Original paper slip text:Commissioners at Paris, 1st U.S. Joint Commission

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John Adams

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Benjamin Franklin

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Arthur Lee

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14 July 1778; also a translation; The Function of Consuls
8 p.
  • RG 59, PCC, No. 85
  • Copied from a letterbook of Arthur Lee.

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From the collection: RG 59: General Records of the Dept. of State, Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789

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Wharton

Original paper slip text:Printed: Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev., II, 650–653, with the Function of Consuls

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The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, ed. Francis Wharton, Washington, D.C., 1889
6 vols.

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