11From Benjamin Franklin to Landais, 25 April 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: University of Virginia Library The Bearer Mr. Hezekiah Ford who has for some time been in the service of the United States, & always a zealous friend to the cause of Liberty, being about to return to America, if you can conveniently receive him in your Ship as a Passenger when you return thither you will oblige Sir Your most Obedient & most Humble Servant I Certify that the above Letter...
12From Benjamin Franklin to Landais, 28 April 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copies: Archives de la Marine, Library of Congress, Harvard University Library Being arrived at L’Orient agreable to the Orders I sent you when at Nantes, you are to join Capt. Jones, put yourself and ship under his Command as your senior Officer, proceed with him on the Cruize he is about to make, and obey his Orders untill your Return to France. I heartily wish you Success, both with Regard...
13From Benjamin Franklin to Landais, 19 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received yours of the 12th. and 15th. Instant. I was glad to hear of your safe Arrival at l’Orient, but what you write me about the Officers of your ship afflicts me exceedingly. At this Distance I can do nothing towards remedying the Disorder. I must therefore leave it to Commodore Jones whose Authority with the Aid of Courts martial, if necessary, will I hope be...
14From Benjamin Franklin to Pierre Landais, 28 July 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copies: Library of Congress; Harvard University Library In case the Circumstances of the Bonhomme Richard, should make a Delay of her Sailing necessary of which Mr. De Chaumont will inform you, I do hereby direct that you proceed to the North Seas by Such Route as you Shall judge most proper, and cruise there till the end of September in such Parts as are most convenient for intercepting the...
15From Benjamin Franklin to Landais, 15 October 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copies: Harvard University Library, Library of Congress I receivd the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me the 4th. inst. with an Abstract of your Journal; I thank you for your care in sending it so early, & I congratulate you on the success of your cruize. But I am sorry to find, there are charges against you for disobedience of Orders, & also that the Ministry here think the great...
16From Benjamin Franklin to Landais, 10 November 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress Having not yet received from Commodore Jones, what he may have to offer in support of the Charges he makes against you, I find it proper to postpone for a few Days the hearing of your Defence, and I do therefore here by desire you to Stay in Paris till Monday next. When I hope the Hearing may take place. I am, Sir Your most obedient and most humble servant. Because...
17From Benjamin Franklin to Landais, 10 January 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress A Copy shall be made of the Paragraphs you mention, and delivered to you attested as you desire. As we have a great deal of pressing Business on hand, I am oblig’d to postpone your affair till this Day week, which I mention to save you the Trouble of calling on me sooner. In the mean time I wish you would peruse the enclosed memoirs from the Swedish Ambassador,...
18From Benjamin Franklin to Landais, 12 February 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress You are pleased to blame me for your long stay in Paris. I have not heard of any Opportunity you have had of going to America, and if you had been there you must have waited as long for the Arrival of the Alliance before you could have had the Court martial you desire. There seems then to have been no time lost. When you desired me formerly to order your Things to be...
19From Benjamin Franklin to Landais: Certificate, 14 February 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I do hereby certify whom it may concern, that the stay of Capt. Landais till this Time in Paris, has been occasioned partly on account of the enquiry into his Conduct in the late Cruise and partly as there has been no good Opportunity to My knowledge for his going sooner to america. BF and Landais probably met on the morning of Monday, Feb. 14, as had been arranged:...
20From Benjamin Franklin to Pierre Landais, 1 March 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I receiv’d the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me the 28th. past. Inclos’d I send you the certificate I gave you the last time I saw you to justify your stay in Paris till the Time of its Date, You left it on my table. As I do not understand that Capt. Jones has refused to deliver your Things, or that any Application has been made for them, an Order to him...