Trenton Decemr. 11th 1784
The Honble Benjamin Franklin Esqr.
Minister plenipotentiary from the United States of America to his most Christian Majesty
Sir,
I have the honor to enclose to your Excellency, a packet for his most Christian Majesty containing a letter from Congress to that Monarch, recommending an able and active friend the Marquis la Fayette to his royal favour. The Marquis’s former and recent services to America, deserve and have secured to him the warmest Attachments of these United States. I have the honor to be with Sentiments of the highest respect and esteem, Sir,
Your Excellency’s Most Obedient & very humble Servant.
Richard Henry Lee
Papers of the Continental CongressLibrary of Congress
Printed in James Curtis Ballagh, The Letters of Richard Henry Lee, Volume 2, 1779 - 1794, p. 309. Lee enclosed this letter in his to Lafayette of the same date.