France, 1774-1788 993 
1779, July 2. Concerning d'Auberteuil' s historical 
and political essays on Anglo-Americans (f . 124) . 
1781, Jan. 18. Permission to print translation of 
an English work on consequences of American independence 
(f . 173) . 
1783, Jan. 25, Feb. 9. Permission to print letter 
to Abbe Raynal on affairs of North America (ff . 204, 207) . 
Apr. 10. Concerning publication of an account 
of last war (f . 208) . 
May 17, Aug. 18. Permission to print history 
of North ministry, 1770-1772, and of American war to 1783 
(ff . 209, 210) . 
Correspondence of Vergennes with Villedeuil , 
Vidaud de La Tour , Masey . Chas 
1783, June 26. Concerning the "American Spectator," 
general remarks on North America (f. 237). 
1785, Oct. 18. Concerning publication of a discourse 
on value of discovery of America to human race (f. 240). 
Dec. 2; 1786, Jan. 31. Concerning book on 
European trade with Africa, West Indies, and America (ff. 
243, 248) . 
1786, Apr. 2. Concerning a history of last war 
between Great Britain and France, U.S., Spain, and Holland 
(f . 253) . 
Apr. 12, May 23; 1787 , Apr. 29. Concerning a 
history of American revolution with regard to South Carolina 
(ff . 255, 264, 303) . 
Apr. 12. Permission to print Chastellux's 
voyages in America (f . 256) . 
Dec. 23; 1787, May 4. Permission to print, 
with certain corrections, Franqois Soules' history of 
troubles of British America (ff. 286, 304). 
1787, Jan. 7. Permission to publish historical and 
political researches on U.S. (f. 287). 
Jan. 28, Mar. 18. Permission to publish 
Baroness de Vasse's memoirs on history of American revo- 
lution (ff . 289, 292) . 
Apr. 26, May 17, 23, 25. Permission to print 
work of Chas on philosophical and political history of 
English revolutions from time of Julius Caesar to peace 
of 1783 (ff. 302, 306, 309, 310). 
Correspondence of Montmorin with Vidaud de La Tour 
1787, Nov. 21, Dec. 15. Permission to print historical 
and political observations on tariff of treaty of Franco- 
American commerce (ff. 327, 336). 
1788, Jan. 16, Feb. 4. Permission to print reflections 
on present situation of Great Britain (ff . 344, 348) . 
584 (1774-1788) 
1774, Jan. Girault to Gerard, revolution in Britain's 
American colonies (f . 10) . 
1776, July 7. Vergennes, memoir presented to Royal 
Council; war with Britain will result from Spanish-Portuguese 
