Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Content: Lithograph fac-simile of an A. L. S. in the possession of F. J. Dreer, Esq. Phila. 2 pp. Fo. With a small wood engraving, on India paper, of the Res. of John Witherspoon Mercer Co. N. J.

Abstract

Acknowledges a letter of the 14th by Mr. Delandes, to the education of whose son he will pay the strictest attention; he has now several young French gentlemen; he has never heard anything against Mr. Lavalette; the latter came to Princeton to teach French; he gave him encouragement, having tried himself to introduce a knowledge of the language, before the war; Lavalette left only because he could not gain a sufficient support.

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NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b11868616
Archives ID: 927
Emmet number: EM. 2757
Archives EAD ID: 276013
Archives Components ID: 1071
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 576f9910-6a41-0139-a765-0242ac110002

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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Letter to [François Barbé de] Marbois, Philadelphia" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1783. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/576f9910-6a41-0139-a765-0242ac110002

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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1783). Letter to [François Barbé de] Marbois, Philadelphia Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/576f9910-6a41-0139-a765-0242ac110002

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