Letters to Benjamin Franklin 301 



From J[onathan] Williams, Jr. 1777. October 11. Nantes. 



Requesting a letter of recommendation for M. Sollicoifre, who sails 

 shortly for Virginia. He is an upright, deserving young man who has 

 been several years in the counting house of Mr. Schweighauser. Is in- 

 duced to ask this from his friendship for Mr. SoUicoffre. A. L. S. 



2 p. XXXVII, 112. 



From J[onathan] Williams, Jr., to The American Commissioners. 



1777. October 14. Nantes. 



Capt. Nicholson gone to L'Orient to aid the captains of the two 

 frigates just arrived there. Return of the Mere Bobie. Her Captain 

 delivered your dispatches in safety, but has not been so fortunate with 

 those he was charged with in return. A. L. S. 2 p. XXXVII, 113. 



From Henri Walter. 1777. October 15. Hildesheim. 



Lives in a country which produces immense quantities of linen and 

 cotton fabrics which may be useful to the Congress; asks Franklin to 

 procure him orders. A. L. S. 2 p. (In French.) VII, 72. 



From Jona[tlian] Williams, Jr., to The American Commissioners. 



1777. October 16. Nantes. 



Captain Brown wishes to be excused from taking the Dolphin as his 

 owners have directed him to return in the Mars, which belongs to 

 them, but he will do as you wish. Now getting in her new mast. 

 Would be glad if the Dolphin were not to sail 'till the Lion is ready; 

 1000 fuzils arrived from Dunkirk. A. L. S. 2 p. XXXVII, 114. 



From William Lee. 1777. October 16. 



Relative to the price of nonpareil letters, in Harlem, and the purchase 

 of type. Inadvisable to have the entire Bible in type at once. Cause 



for not signing name. Glad to hear that the military brute P 1 is, 



for a time, deprived of his power to exercise his natural insolence. 

 Wishes he was the only British officer in America who could be justly 

 charged with brutality. Fears for America and equally for the dear 

 bought liberties of England, which will inevitably expire by the same 

 wounds that destroy those of the Colonies. L. 3 p. XLIV, 19. 



