From Benjamin Franklin to Genet, 24 December 1778
To Genet
ALS: Library of Congress
Passy, Dec. 24. 1778
Dear Sir,
If any News Papers should come to your Hands from London directed to Mr Benson, they are for me & I shall be oblig’d to you for sending them to me.2 I am, with much Esteem, Dear Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant
B Franklin
Addressed: A Monsr / Monsieur Genet / Bureau des Interprétes / à Versailles
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
2. “Benson” was the code name Edward Bancroft had adopted for his dealings with Samuel Wharton, who presumably was the source of the newspapers here mentioned: see XXIII, 202n.