1Editorial Note on Franklin’s Accounts, 1 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Of the accounts that we discussed at the beginning of the French period, the following are still...
2To Benjamin Franklin from John MacMahon, 1 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I make bold to recommend to you the bearer, who is a...
ALS : American Philosophical Society J’ai l’honneur de vous communiquer une lettre ecrite de...
4Joshua Johnson to the American Commissioners, 2 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I propose to fit out two or three Vessells on my return to...
5To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, 2 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The first letter about commission-seekers in the present...
6From Benjamin Franklin to [Barbeu-Dubourg], [after 2 October? 1777] (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress You know, my dear Friend, that I am not capable of...
7Edward Bancroft to the American Commissioners, 3 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Bancroft was beginning to find a spy’s life hard on the...
8From Benjamin Franklin to [Lebègue de Presle], 4 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Facsimile: Yale University Library; copy: Library of Congress I am much oblig’d by your...
9To Benjamin Franklin from John Thornton, 4 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The content of this letter is as puzzling as the writer. The...
10To Benjamin Franklin from Antoine Yart: A Poem, 4 October 1777: résumé (Franklin Papers)
AD : American Philosophical Society <Ecoüis, near Rouen, October 4, 1777, in French: The poem, of...
11From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 5 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I suppose some of your kind Letters to me have miscarried,...
12The Committee for Foreign Affairs to the American Commissioners, 6 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society, Maine Historical Society; copies: Library of Congress,...
13The Committee for Foreign Affairs to the American Commissioners, 6[–9] October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society, Maine Historical Society; copies: Library of Congress,...
14Gourlade, Bérard frères & Monplaisir to the American Commissioners, 6 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Connecticut Historical Society We have the satisfaction to inform you of the arrival in this...
15To Benjamin Franklin from William Gordon, 6[–25] October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I wrote you lately by the way of Holland, and sent to the...
16The American Commissioners to the Committee for Foreign Affairs, 7 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Attested copy: Harvard University Library; copies: British Library (incomplete), National...
17From Benjamin Franklin to James Lovell, 7 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Massachusetts Historical Society I receiv’d your Favour (without Date) communicating a...
18From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Paine: Extract, [7 October 1777] (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Packet , February 16, 1779. Our affairs, so far as they are connected...
19To Benjamin Franklin from J. Bowman, 7 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society When dining at Passy some weeks ago I heard you mention that...
20To Benjamin Franklin from the Marquis de Condorcet, 7 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Permettez-moi de vous demander une Lettre de recommendation...
21To Benjamin Franklin from ——— de Ponteney, 7 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society D’aprés les deux entretiens que j’ay eü avec vous, je me...
22[Silas Deane] to John Folger, 7 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Copies: Connecticut Historical Society; Harvard University Library This letter set in motion a...
23To Benjamin Franklin from John James Doerner, 8 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Mr. Doerner just arrived from London tho’ unknown to Doctor...
24From Benjamin Franklin to Doerner, 8 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
AL : Comte François d’Harcourt, Paris (1984) Mr. Franklin presents his Compliments to Mr....
25The American Commissioners to John Philip Merckle, 9 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Connecticut Historical Society We have recd. several letters from you written in a menacing...
26John King to the American Commissioners, 9 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Agreeable to my Promise I beg leave to inform you that I...
27To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Jr., 9 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society This is Williams’ first surviving letter after he left for...
28Thomas Thompson to the American Commissioners, 10 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society You will perhaps be surpriz’d at two Continental Frigates...
29Jonathan Williams, Jr., to the American Commissioners, 11 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : University of Virginia Library I send inclosed the agreement made with the proposed Captain...
30To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Jr., 11 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Mr. Sollicoffre of whom you have already received...