Etats-Unis, 1779 573 
Other Material 
July 10, Aug. EO. Memoirs of La Frette and 
Menuisier Cie, Forsters freres, and 0' Gorman to Vergennes 
and to Sartine (ff. 71, 340, 342). 
July 18. Vergennes, instructions to La Luzerne 
(Doniol, III, 266, IV, 4, 187-188, 189n. , 224-225). 
July 26, Aug. 5. Gerard, memoirs to Congress 
(Wharton, III, 258-260, 286-287). 
Aug. 9. Address of Philadelphia General Com- 
mittee to Gerard (Meng, 853-855) . 
Aug. 10. B. Franklin, original list of artillery 
asked for by U.S. (f. 289). 
Aug. 18. Account of reception tendered La 
Luzerne by assembly of Massachusetts Bay (f . 329) . 
July 3. Proclamation by Navarro, governor of 
Cuba; resolutions of Congress; maps of military operations 
in North America; extracts from American newspapers; Pennsyl- 
vania Packet . 
Subjects Treated 
Franco -American relations in Paris; commercial affairs; 
question of free port for U.S.; activities of American 
privateers; confiscation of Izard's property; affairs of 
S. Wharton; attitude of Spain towards Franco-American al- 
liance; news from England; American requests for supplies 
and money; preparation of French expeditionary force for 
America; French officers in America; transmission to and 
receipt of letters from America; financial operations of 
Holker in Philadelphia; Lafayette's proposals for French 
campaign in America; news from U.S. (ff . 9, 32, 47, 50, 52, 
154, 187, 209, 211-213, 216, 237, 257, 260, 270, 289, 298, 
299, 318. 319, 339, 345, 348, 356, 357, 361, 364, 366, 368, 
370, 380). 
News from West Indies; operations of d'Estaing's fleet; 
capture of Grenada (ff. 45, 73, 76, 77, 255, 316, 343). 
Franco-American relations in Philadelphia; reports 
of Gerard, instructions from Vergennes; debates in Congress 
on terms of peace and offers to be made to Spain: fisheries, 
boundaries, Mississippi navigation, Florida; choice of 
plenipotentiaries to Spain and for peace; U.S. finances: 
taxes, Continental currency, subsidies, loans; American, 
British, French military and naval operations in North 
America; propaganda in public prints; party divisions in 
Congress; U.S. fidelity to French alliance; Philadelphia 
observance of fourth of July; transmission and receipt of 
despatches; unrest in Philadelphia and other parts of U.S. 
due to high prices; commercial transactions of Holker and 
Robert Morris; Spanish proposal of long truce; Maryland 
and confederation; U.S. government and politics; relations 
of states with Congress and among themselves; proposed 
American expedition against Canada; Gerard's interviews 
with members of Congress; Franco-Spanish relations; audience 
of Gerard with. Congress ; departure of Temple for Europe; 
extracts from Journals of Congress; exchange of prisoners; 
reprisals for British cruelties proposed by Congress; ac- 
tivities of Lee family in U.S. and abroad; ill-health of 
