Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) to Robert R. Livingston, re: peace preliminaries [letterpress copy]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00154.04 Author/Creator: Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) Place Written: Passy, France Type: Letter Date: 21 January 1783 Pagination: 2 p. 25 x 40 cm Order a Copy
Letterpress retained (?) copy announcing preliminary peace accords between France, Britain, Spain and the United States.
Signer of the U.S. Constitution.
Passy, Jany. 21. 1783.
Sir,
I have just received your Letter of Novr. 9. & Decr. 3. This is to inform you, & to request you would inform the Congress, that the Preliminaries of Peace between France, Spain, and England were yesterday signed, and a Cessation of Arms agreed to by the Ministers of those Powers, and by us in Behalf of the United States. Of which Act, so far as relates to us, I inclose [sic] a Copy. I have not yet obtained a Copy of the Preliminaries agreed to by the three Crowns, but hear in general that they are very advantageous to France and Spain. I shall be able in a day or two to write more fully and perfectly. Holland was not ready to sign Preliminaries, but their principal Points are accepted. Mr. Laurens is absent [2] at Bath and Mr. Jay in Normandy, for their Healths, but will both be here to assist in forming the Definitive Treaty. I congratulate you & our Country, on the happy Prospects afforded by the Finishing so speedily this glorious Revolution; and am with great esteem,
Sir,
Your most Obedient
& most humble Servant
B.Franklin
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