To Benjamin Franklin from the Comte de Sarsfield, [5 March 1784?]
From the Comte de Sarsfield
AL: American Philosophical Society
Friday the 5th at night [March 5, 1784?]3
Count sarsfield hoped to receive today the Collection of Some of those little pieces which mr franklin had promised to him & which he had forgot yesterday.
He cannot help writing again about them to mr franklin. He is So much the more impatient of receiving them that he is very near his departure for the Hague. He Desires mr franklin never to forget his most Sincere and devoted Attachment.
Addressed: a monsieur / Monsieur Franklin ministre / plenipotentiare des Etats Unis / d’Amerique / A Passy / hotel de Sarsfield
Endorsed: Sarsfield the Count.—
3. A likely possibility, given what we know of Sarsfield’s travels and the few times during BF’s stay in France that Friday fell on the fifth of the month. In 1784 Sarsfield arrived in The Hague on April 30, and was back in Paris by the end of July: Frans Hemsterhuis to the princesse de Golitsyn, April 30, 1784 (Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster); Medlin, Morellet, 1, 526–9. The editors thank Jacob van Sluis, University of Groningen, for his online publication of the Hemsterhuis correspondence.