ARTHUR LEE TO RALPH IZARD.
January 28th, 1778.
Sir,
You may if you please mention to the other Commissioners, that I have asked your opinion of the proposition of setting all our exports to the French Islands, against the molasses imported from them, in a perpetual exemption from duties. If your arguments should convince them, I am still ready to co-operate in preventing the article from taking effect, and think there is yet time. But a day may render it irrecoverable.
I am, &c.
ARTHUR LEE.
TO BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
Paris, January 28th, 1778.
Dear Sir,