AMERICA. Joseph-Mathias Gérard de Rayneval (1736-1812) jurist and diplomat, first clerk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. L.A.S., Versailles February 7, 1782; 2pages in-4. Letter concerning the young American Republic, referring to its Minister Plenipotentiary in Versailles, Benjamin Franklin, its Superintendent of Finance, Robert Morris, as well as the latter's French counterpart, Jean-François Joly de Fleury, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Comte de Vergennes. "Mr. Franklin will receive tomorrow morning a ministerial letter abandoning to his management, according to Mr. Morris's wish, the funds still remaining from the Holland loan: this letter is accompanied by the state of the situation in Congress. Mr. Franklin is referred to Mr. Joly de Fleury for the measures to be taken to post Mr. Morris's instructions, of which Mr. Cte de Vergennes has informed the Minister of Finance"...