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Yr. favours of the 23d. & 27 Ult.1 I duely recd. & should have replied sooner but from the dailey expectation that a Courier express would set out. He is still delayed & for aught I know may be a day or two longer. I approve much of yr.sentiments as to Vessels of War expressed in yours of the 27th. & most sincerely...
Date: 3 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I have convers'd with Dr Franklin on the Subject of yours of the 3d, who is of Opinion that the giving Protection or Encouragemt. to the Importation of British Manufactures into America will be in direct Opposition to the Resolution of Congress & at a time when the Advantages of the American Commerce are held out as one principal Enducement to other Nations to...
Date: 15 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Yours of the 6th. came to hand in Course;1 as Mr. W Lee will be with you before the receipt of this we refer you to him for what has been done as to the Late Mr. Morris's Papers &c. In regard to the Ship purchased by you, Commanded by Capt. J. Green2 which you Offer to Assign over to the Public account we are Content that you do it &...
Date: 11 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
You will probably think that I have been very Neglectful1 in not writing to you oftener, And the only Apology that I Can offer is, that I have been engaged in the most troublesome affair that ever I undertook And had I expected that I Should have had half the trouble to Encounter with, the Cutter1 might have Remained years in Bilboa, before I would have taken the Management of her, but...
Date: 19 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
You will no doubt be surprized to receive a Letter of this date from me at Brest—I will Account to you for my detention before I depart. I have endeavoured to Account for it to the Commissioners.—I must inform you that I have desired some of my friends beyond Channel to address letters to your care as follows—A Monsieur, Monsieur Jones à Le soin de Monsr: Jean Ross Negociant à Nantes—I...
Date: 25 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11