Miscellaneous Letters 507 



By Due de Polignac, Due de Guines, Comte de Polastron, Comte 



Vaudreuil, d'Hunaud, Benjamin Franklin, Faujas de 



Saint Fond, Delisle, [Jean Baptiste] Le Roy. 1783. 



November 21. Chateau de la Muette. 



Enthusiastic description of an ascension made in M. Montgolfier's 

 aerostatic machine; it carried two passengers, the Marquis d'Orlandes 

 and M. Pilatre de Rozier. Mem. 3 p. (In French. Copy.) 



XI, 54. 



From Silas Deane to The Continental Congress. [Circa 1783.] 



His bill against Congress; three charges cited as having been wrong- 

 fully made; reimbursement sought. A. L. i p. XI, 55. 



"An Ode in Imitation of Aleaeus." 1783. 



Printed by B[enjamin] F[ranklin] Bache. Passy, 1783. Printed 

 broadside, i p. XI, 56. 



From [Madame] Devillier Peehigny to William Temple Franklin, 



Passy. [Circa 1783.] 



Terms upon which his protege may be received into the writer's 

 school. L. S. I p. (In French.) XI, 57. 



By Hoffman. 1784. August 2. 



Page with ornamental heading, showing the new art of polytype in- 

 vented by M. Hoffman, i p. (In French.) XI, 58. 



From to Benjamin [Franklin] Baehe. 



1784. October 14 and July 2, 1785. 

 Tailor's bill. Mem. i p. (Latter part torn off.) XI, 59. 



By . Circa 1787. 



List of boys in his Excellency's, Dr. Franklin's, Charity School. 

 Mem. I p. XI, 60. 



By . 1788. July 4- 



Ode in honor of the day. Printed broadside, i p. XII, 75* 



