Bilboa the 10th of May 1777
Copy
The Schooner Marblehead Capt Saml Dugard will be dispatched by the 14th instant In her we intend shipping some Salt Duck & tent cloth.
Memorandum of Articles shippd in the Success Capt Cabbott Gerrish dispatchd the 8th instant.
Signd Gardoqui
[Endorsed by William Eden] Paris Octr 6th 1777 Mr A. Lee. This was under a separate sealed Cover & directed To "The Honourable The Chairman of the Committee for foreign Correspondence, Philadelphia."
1. Stevens, ed., Facsimiles, No. 253. The copy is in the handwriting of Arthur Lee and was enclosed in his letter of October 6, 1777 to the Committee of Secret Correspondence. It was probably among the dispatches stolen by Joseph Hynson.
