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To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont, 20 November 1779

From Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont

AL: American Philosophical Society

Passi ce 20. 9bre. 1779.

Chaumont a L’honneur d’envoyer a S. Ex. M. Franklin unne Lettre et un Memoire d’observations2 qu’il vient de Recevoir et qui pouroient estre utils a M. Landais dont la Reputation Souffre de touttes les Relations mises dans Les gazettes.

S. Ex. voudra Bien prescrire a M. de Chaumont L’usage qu’il peut faire ou doit faire de ces Lettres et memoires.

Notation: M. de Chaumont Nov. 20. 1779.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

2. Undoubtedly the letter and memoir highly critical of Jones sent to Chaumont by Capt. Cottineau of the Pallas: XXX, 443n, 458n, 580n.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont, 20 November 1779
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    Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de
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    Franklin, Benjamin
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    20 November 1779

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont, 20 November 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-31-02-0077. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 31, November 1, 1779, through February 29, 1780, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995, pp. 133–134.]

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