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Benjamin Franklin Papers, 1726-1907, (bulk 1770-1789)

Title: Benjamin Franklin Papers 1726-1907 (bulk 1770-1789)

Statesman, publisher, scientist, and diplomat. Correspondence, journals, records, articles, and other material relating to Franklin's life and career. Includes manuscripts (1728) of his ; negotiations in London (1775); letterbooks (1779-1782) of the United States legation in Paris; records (1780-1783) of the United States peace commissioners, including journals kept by Franklin and Richard Oswald; and papers (1781-1818) of Franklin's grandson, William Temple Franklin (1760-1823). Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion

ArchivalResource: 8,000 items; 40 containers; 12 linear feet; 12 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003048 View

Sartine, Antoine de, comte d'Alby, 1729-1801. [Letter] 1766 fevr. 13 [to] M. Sénac de Meilhan / de Sartine.

Title: [Letter] 1766 fevr. 13 [to] M. Sénac de Meilhan / de Sartine.

Sartine, then Lieutenant General of Police of Paris, writes to Sénac de Meilhan, concerning his investigation of a domestic who allegedly claimed kinship with Sénac de Meilhan.

ArchivalResource: [2] p. ; 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427557265 View

Necker, Jacques, 1732-1804. [Letters, 1779-1789] / Necker.

Title: [Letters, 1779-1789] / Necker.

[Letter] 1779 juin 14, Paris [to] M. de Sartine. Necker asks Antoine de Sartine, at the time of this letter the head of the Dept. of the Marine, to get protested customs dues at least provisionally collected in Guadeloupe, in the West Indies. -- [Letter] 1789 févr. 4, Versailles [to] M. Rabaud de St. Etienne. Necker thanks St. Etienne for his letter and tells him of the forthcoming announcement concerning the States-General, namely, that any Frenchman may be elected to it. his was of particular importance to St. Etienne as he was a Protestant pastor. At this time in France Non-Catholics were not allowed to hold high public office. Etchings of Necker -- Etching, n.d. On etching: C. H. G. Neker, directeur général des finances. A Paris chez Esnauts et Rapilly ... no. 259. -- Etching, 1789. On etching: Necker, pub. by J. Sewell, Cornhill, Jan. 1, 1789. Bromley sculp.

ArchivalResource: 4 items

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Abarca de Bolea, Pedro Pablo, conde de Aranda, 1718-1798. Letter : Paris, to Antoine de Sartine, comte d'Alby, [1779] Dec. 7.

Title: Letter : Paris, to Antoine de Sartine, comte d'Alby, [1779] Dec. 7.

Autograph letter signed. Relates to five Spanish ships that were equipped in Le Havre.

ArchivalResource: 1item (2 p.) ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52245870 View

Archives nationales (France). Archives nationales (France) collection on the Siege of Savannah, 1779.

Title: Archives nationales (France) collection on the Siege of Savannah, 1779.

This collection consists of microfilm copies of materials concerning the 1779 Siege of Savannah, Georgia, from the Marine series B, volumes 166 and 167, at the Archives nationales (Paris, France). Included are a draft of the observations of Count d'Estaing and his report to M. de Sartine (p. 343-404); the Orderly Book of General d'Estaing's headquarters from his landing at Beaulieu until his embarkation five weeks later (p. 266-310); a transcript of the original Journal Du Siege de Savannah by Antoine Francois Terance O'Connor, including Count d'Estaing's commentaries and observations copied in the parallel column. These materials were microfilmed by the Library of Congress for Alexander A. Lawrence, President of the Georgia Historical Society, in 1949 and 1950.

ArchivalResource: 2 microfilm rolls

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180157864 View

Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792. Collection of papers of John Paul Jones, 1776-1789.

Title: Collection of papers of John Paul Jones, 1776-1789.

Collection of miscellaneous letters and documents. Included are correspondence and documents dealing with the disposition of the prisoners of war and refitting American ships of war, and Jones's career as U.S. agent in Europe. Also included are Jones's application to the Society of Cincinnati (1783), and a deposition of the officers of the Alliance defending their actions in the engagement between the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis (1779). Other correspondents include Paul Francois de Quelen duc de La Vauguyon and Antoine Raymond Jean Sartine, comte d'Alby.

ArchivalResource: 41 pieces.1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228734091 View

Lamballe, Marie Thérèse Louise de Savoie-Carignan, princesse de, 1749-1792. [Letter] 1778 may 11, Paris [to] M. de Sartine / M. L. P. de Savoye.

Title: [Letter] 1778 may 11, Paris [to] M. de Sartine / M. L. P. de Savoye.

Letter requests that Pierre Lépine, stationed at the depot of the Isle de Rhé be granted a discharge from the Army, since he has a relative in the Princess's household. -- Also, etching of Mme. de Lamballe. Bosselman sc. Imp. F. Chambe.

ArchivalResource: [1] leaf ; 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244387219 View

John Holker Papers, 1777-1822

Title: John Holker Papers 1777-1822

Merchant and French consul general in the United States. Correspondence, invoice book of Jacques-Donatien Leray de Chaumont, depositions taken before Benjamin Franklin, and navigational exercise booklets of George W. Stillman, relating to French military and economic assistance to the United States and American commerce during and after the Revolutionary War.

ArchivalResource: 4,500 items; 41 containers; 9.4 linear feet; 20 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010087 View

Abarca de Bolea, Pedro Pablo, conde de Aranda, 1718-1798. Letter : Paris, to Antoine de Sartine, comte d'Alby, [1779] Dec. 7.

Title: Letter : Paris, to Antoine de Sartine, comte d'Alby, [1779] Dec. 7.

Autograph letter signed. Relates to five Spanish ships that equipped in Le Havre.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 p., 1 p.) ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82972310 View

Edmond Charles Genet Papers, 1734-1895, (bulk 1789-1793)

Title: Edmond Charles Genet Papers 1734-1895 (bulk 1789-1793)

French diplomat and first minister of the French Republic to the United States. Correspondence written and received during Genet's diplomatic service in Russia and the United States; also legation accounts, extracts from English newspapers, notes relating to England and America, scientific papers, a memoir prepared by his son, Geo. Clinton Genet, and other descendants, and printed material.

ArchivalResource: 35,000 items; 53 containers plus 1 oversize; 21.2 linear feet; 41 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010166 View

Autograph File, S, 1556-1996.

Title: Autograph File, S, 1556-1996.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 15.5 boxes (7.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01442/catalog View

Destouches, Charles-René-Dominique Sochet, 1727-1794. Papers of Charles-René-Dominique Sochet Destouches, 1754-1804 (bulk 1780-1781).

Title: Papers of Charles-René-Dominique Sochet Destouches, 1754-1804 (bulk 1780-1781).

Chiefly papers accumulated by Destouches during his command of the squadron of Expédition particulière in Sept. 1780 - May 1781. Included are letters, instructions, communications, intelligence reports, orders and regulations, accounts of salaries and provisions, reports of ships' activities lists of French ships and their captains, and lists of English ships captured by combined French and Spanish fleets.

ArchivalResource: 117 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122288762 View

Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774. [Collection of 40 manuscript documents relating to the French naval headquarters at Toulon, 1750-1796].

Title: [Collection of 40 manuscript documents relating to the French naval headquarters at Toulon, 1750-1796].

ArchivalResource: 1 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 48 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42587602 View

Documents relating to the French participation in the American Revolution, 1768-1793

Title: Documents relating to the French participation in the American Revolution 1768-1793

Collection consists of documents relating to France's secret and open role on behalf of the American Revolution. Includes letters and documents related to Philippe Charles Jean Baptiste Tronson du Coudray; material on the mobilization of the French fleet, including letters and reports from Pierre-Louis, Chevalier de Monteil, Antoine de Sartine, comte d'Alby, Charles Eugène Gabriel de la Croix, Marquis de Castries, and Bernardo de Gálvez; papers related to France's role in the Caribbean and its alliance with the Spanish forces, including several reports by Diego José Navarro; French rule of Santo Domingo after the Treaty of Paris; and other materials including documents related to naval confrontations between the French and British fleets, the supplying of Rochambeau's army, the termination of hostilities, including an assessment of France's gains and losses, the repatriation of French troops, and Franco-American commerce after the revolution.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 linear feet (1 box); Other formats include 1 portfolio

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.french View

Morellet, André, 1727-1819. [Letter] 1760 juin 15 [to] Lieutenant General de Police á Paris / Morellet.

Title: [Letter] 1760 juin 15 [to] Lieutenant General de Police á Paris / Morellet.

This letter to the Lieutenant General de Police, Paris, who at the time was Antoine de Sartine, is written from the Bastille. Morellet acknowledges his folly and asks to have a letter forwarded to Turgot. The date of the letter is in a hand other than Morellet's, possibly that of de Sartine.

ArchivalResource: [2] p. 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/501844333 View

Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792. Typescript, [19--].

Title: Typescript, [19--].

Typescript, probably created in the early twentieth century, from a 19th century transcription of a letterbook, 1778 March 5-1779 July 30, of Admiral John Paul Jones, to which has been added additional correspondents and extracts from letters and logbooks in the possession of the Naval History Society. Letters, principally written while Jones was engaged in operations in Brest, concern his movements, naval engagements, requests for money and supplies, disposition of captured vessels and prisoners, attempted capture of the Earl of Selkirk, care of the wounded, conditions on shipboard, and outbreaks of smallpox among his crew. Many of the letters additionally touch on Jones's desire for professional preferment and recognition for his accomplishments. Correspondents include: Edward Bancroft, Le Ray de Chaumont, Benjamin Franklin, James Moylan, John Ross, Antoine de Sartine, Jonathon Williams, and many others. Includes partial index.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (358 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58758919 View