From — d’Alagnac
ALS: American Philosophical Society
<Clermont-Ferrand in Auvergne, April 11, 1778, in French: I
trust that you will give me, though a stranger, news of my
relative the chevalier de Pontgibaud, who left Nantes on October
11 last with recommendations to M. Lafayette and Gen.
Conway. For six months I have had no word, and his father,
seventy-seven, is in great anxiety. You are presumably informed
of the least thing that happens in that country; please
let me know whether he arrived, was received, and is behaving
“en digne chevalier francais.”>
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