record number: 050221

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Dates:

8 Apr. 1785

Original paper slip text:8 April 1785

Author:

Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier Lafayette Marquis

Original paper slip text:Marquis de Lafayette

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Recipient:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:[JA

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Thomas Jefferson

Original paper slip text:T. Jefferson

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Benjamin Franklin

Original paper slip text:B. Franklin

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Length:

4 p. (Copy)

Notes:

Miscellaneous Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789 (RG 360, M-332, roll 2)
Note: The docket reads, "Letter from La Fayette giving information to Mess. Adams, Franklin and Jefferson concerning presents to the Barbary powers."
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From the collection: RG 360: Records of the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, Misc. Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789

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PJA, 17:6–8

Papers of John Adams, volume 17, page 6

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Idzerda

Original paper slip text:PRINTED: Idzerda ed., Lafayette 5:315–317

Full citation:

Stanley J. Idzerda, ed., Lafayette in the age of the American Revolution : selected letters and papers, 1776-1790. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1977-[1983]

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Jefferson Papers

Original paper slip text:Printed: Jefferson, Papers, ed. Boyd, 8:70–72.

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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen (from vol. 21), John Catanzariti (from vol. 24), and others, Princeton, 1950-.

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