Ralph Izard to the American Commissioners
ALS: Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères
<Paris, September 21, 1778: I have learned that the ship Nile,
Captain Goldsmith, has been taken while bound from London
to Leghorn and brought into Marseilles. She carried 20 packages
of my baggage addressed to Monsieur Antoine Martinelli,
merchant, to be delivered to the abbé Niccoli. My name
doesn’t appear on them as this might have caused their detention
at the London Customs House. Please take whatever
measures you think proper, so they can be delivered to my
authorized representative.>
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