Dumas to the American Commissioners
AL: American Philosophical Society; AL (draft): Algemeen Rijksarchief
<The Hague, May 22[-26], 1778, in French: The Grand Pensionary
wants to acknowledge your letter but cannot give you,
until authorized, your due titles; he has offered to communicate
verbally through me, and I shall wait until I can furnish
him a copy of the treaty. Our friend [van Berckel] wants to
know how the British commissioners will be received in America.
He tells me in the meeting of the States Holland and Amsterdam
stood out against a troop increase, and without them
the other provinces can do nothing. I enclose a French translation
of the document that I enclosed in Dutch with my last.
Mr. Samuel Stockton is here, and departs tomorrow for Amsterdam
and Germany; he left the enclosed letter with me.>
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