Arthur Lee to Franklin and Silas Deane
Copy and transcript: National Archives
Berlin June 15. 1777
Dear Sirs

I had the honour of writing to you from Munich and Vienna from the last of which I arrived here the 4th of this Month. The letters you have received from hence [show] how the wind blows here. I have tried all in my power to make it change. Hitherto in vain. In ten days I shall set out on my return. There cannot be a State of more perfect question than what prevails in this place, what is nearly commercial is plann’d, but whether it will be adopted remains to be determin’d. I have the Honor of being Dear Sir &c.

Les actions defensives n’ont sans doute pas tant d’ecly [d’éclat] que les conquetes; mais elles demandent plus de fatique plus d’adresse, plus de fermete, et plus d’intrapidité: mémoirs de Montecuculli[?], applicable to Gen. Washington.
To the Commissioners at Paris
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