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Benjamin Franklin

Including the Private as well as the
Official and Scientific Correspondence

Together with

The Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography

Compiled and Edited
by

John Bigelow

"Strange that Ulysses does a thousand things so well."-ILIAD, B. 11, 335

Volume X

G. P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker press
1904

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

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History of the negotiations-Proceedings

Enclosing preliminary articles of peace.

MCXXXI.-To Count de Vergennes, December

MCXXXII.-To ROBERT MORRIS, DECEMBER 14TH.
Efforts to procure a new loan-Dutch loan
-Stores-Accounts.

MCXXXIII.-To Count de Vergennes, December

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Complains that the preliminaries of the
treaty between the commissioners of Eng-
land and the United States had been con-
cluded without any communication with the
French Cabinet.

MCXXXV.-TO COUNT DE Vergennes, December

17TH

No peace can take place between England

and the United States without the concur-

rence of France.

MCXXXVI. From Count de Vergennes to M. de

LA LUZERNE, DECEMBER 19TH.

On the signing of the preliminary arti-

cles without the knowledge of the French

ministry.

MCXXXVII.-TO ROBERT MORRIS, DECEMBER 23D

Remits a part of the new loan-Result of
the treaty uncertain-The neglect of Ameri-

cans to tax themselves rebuked.

MCXXXVIII.-TO ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON, DECEMBER

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