1. Letters to Secret Committee, &c., 1776, SCHS. These are copies of five letters exchanged be tween Arthur Lee, using the name Mary Johnstone, and Beaumarchais, addressed as Hortalez, between May 23 and June 26, 1776. Apparently they were prepared for the Se cret Committee of Congress in connection with Lee's contention that the supplies from France were to require no payment. The quotation marks seem merely to indicate the pertinent part of the letter.