598 Etats-Unis, 1782 
20 (1782. Jan. -Mar.) 
Correspondence of Alexander, d'Argainaratz, Bancroft, 
Blome, E. Burke, Castries, Dumouriez, Duportail, d'Eon, 
Fleury, B. Franklin, Goltz, Gros Preville, Harcourt, B. 
Harrison, Col. Hartley, D. Hartley ,. Ho lker pere, John Jay, 
Lafayette, La Luzerne, Le Camus de Neville, W. Lee, Letombe, 
R. R. Livingston, Marbois, Mercy-Argenteau, Rayneval, Rid- 
ley, Rouihac, Ruker, Segur, Shelburne, Strange, Tingry, 
Veimerange, Vergennes, Jonathan Williams 
Other Material 
Jan. 25. Draft of U.S. consular convention 
(ff . 165-173) . 
Mar. 27. Account of damage done to French le- 
gation at Philadelphia by lightning (ff. 483-487). 
Resolutions of Congress; extracts from American news- 
papers; acts of British parliament. 
Statements of status of currency exchange; statements 
of various portions of U.S. debt to France. 
Memoirs by Alexander, d'Argainaratz, J. Bowdoin, Fleury, 
Leray de Chaumont, Rayneval, Ridley, Veimerange. 
Subjects Treated 
Reports of La Luzerne from Philadelphia, his instruc- 
tions from Vergennes; U.S. finances; situation in Vermont; 
military and naval operations in America; exchange of 
prisoners; U.S. trade and commerce with France; rates of 
exchange; debates in Congress; terms of peace; fisheries; 
boundaries; Mississippi navigation; U.S. difficulties with 
Spain; remarks on John and Samuel Adams, and Henry Laurens; 
U.S. consular convention; Letombe in Boston; election of 
U.S. foreign secretary; debt of U.S. and of individual 
states to France; Dutch loan to U.S.; defection of Silas 
Deane ; attitude towards Temple in Boston; arrival of Lord 
Dunmore at Charleston; arrival of Beniowski in U.S. (ff . 3- 
20, 36-40, 43-70, 72, 74-81, 89-110, 119-127, 129-141, 143- 
144, 151-163, 200-202, 208-216, 218-224, 226-235, 244-246, 
284-297, 299-305, 317-319, 328-335, 340-356, 365, 366, 374- 
386, 388-399, 407-435, 438-439, 441-452, 457-460, 463-481, 
494) . 
Peace negotiations in Paris, principally Hartley- 
Franklin correspondence (ff. 21-31, 86-88, 145-150, 243, 
309-311, 358-359, 362, 363, 371, 402-403, 405-406, 438- 
440, 453, 454, 456, 463-470). 
Request of Maryland for aid from France in purchasing 
supplies (ff. 32-33, 41, 83-84, 113, 114, 488-489). 
French aid to U.S.; American debt to France as result 
of shipments of supplies, and loans; Dutch loan to U.S. 
(ff. 34, 35, 82, 85, 89-105, 111, 205, 206, 239, 248-251, 
273, 275, 278-280, 299-305, 307, 312-316, 320-325, 364, 
400, 401, 404, 461, 482, 493). 
French publications concerning America (ff . 42, 217, 
373) . 
Defection of Silas Deane (ff . 71, 227-230) . 
American prisoners in Europe; help given them by French; 
letters from these prisoners; letters to Frenchmen in America 
(ff. 112, 308, 336, 357, 387, 490). 
