The American Commissioners to Dumas
LS: William N. Dearborn, Nashville, Tennessee (1962); copy: National
Archives
<Passy, September 9, 1778: We received yours hinting that
some of your friends wish the commissioners should propose
a treaty to your government. It really would be a pleasure thus
to cement a union between the two republics, but having received
no answer to their letter sent some months ago on the
subject to the Grand Pensionary they apprehend any further
motion would not be agreeable. They are ready to enter on
such a treaty whenever it shall seem good to their High Mightinesses.>
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