From A.-M. Hevin de Navarre and François-Antoine,
Baron de Seyffertitz
ALS?: American Philosophical Society
<Würzburg, November 22, in French: Our letters to you of
September 24 and November 12 have had no answer and may
not have reached you. We speak for twenty-five or thirty veteran
officers who, like us, want to enter the American service.
We ask for a hundred louis, half in advance and half when we
arrive in Paris to explain our plans; Capt. Navarre, our leader,
is French and has relatives who will repay the advance if the
trip proves impossible. The expense is trifling by comparison
with the advantages we offer, by military service during the
war and thereafter by settling in the United States.>
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