We have the honor to be, &c.
JAMES LOVELL,
ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON,
WILLIAM C. HOUSTON.
TO DE NEUFVILLE & SON, AT AMSTERDAM.
Madrid, June 18th, 1780.
Gentlemen,
Accept my thanks for your favors on the subject of the bills drawn on Mr Laurens. The kind concern you take in the credit and prosperity of the United States merits their acknowledgments, and I shall take the first opportunity of communicating to Congress your very friendly propositions relative to the acceptance of the bills.
Whether Dr Franklin is in circumstances to agree to these propositions I know not. They certainly are very generous and liberal, and would be attended with very happy effects. I am persuaded, that Congress would strain every nerve to fulfill them. I have no intelligence whatever of Mr Laurens, and am much at a loss to conjecture what should detain him.
I have the honor to be, &c.