Benjamin Franklin Papers - To Charles Thomson (unpublished)

I received your kind Letter of August 13th. with the Papers annexed, relative to the Affair of Longchamps. I hope Satisfaction will be given to Mr. Marbois. The Commissioners have written a joint Letter to Congress. This serves to cover a few Papers relative to Matters with which I was particularly charged in the Instructions. I shall write to you fully by the next Opportunity, having now only Time to add, that I am, as ever, Yours most Affectionately,

p.s. To explain the Papers. I had first sent to Count Vergennes, by my Secretary, a Copy of the Instruction of May 11th. He seems to have thought it should have come to him in a more formal Manner, and wrote me the Letter A. I accordingly sent it to him in B. and received his Answer in C. I executed the Instruction of Octr. 29th—83, as soon as I knew the Commissions for treating with the Emperor, &c. were issued, which was not till July—84. The three Letters between the Emperor’s Minister and me are what passed on that Occasion.