I trust you will always answer me speedily, and inform me if my letters reach you. I will send you once more a general copy of my preceding letters, to supply the loss of one or both, in case the vessels that carry them are lost or are taken.
When I promised the Minister, with whom I had an interview on your affairs, not to name him to you, it is only until you expressly require that I make him known to you; for in that case you may know him when you will.
In about eight days I shall leave Utrecht for a country house within seven leagues of the Hague, where I expect to pass the summer.
I have the honor to be, &c.
DUMAS.
FOOTNOTES:
[21] The person here referred to is Arthur Lee. See Arthur Lee's Correspondence, Vol. II. p. 16.
[22] This note refers to Beaumarchais, who proposed to go to Holland, when he saw Mr Lee in London. But he afterwards altered his mind and returned directly to Paris.
TO THE COMMITTEE OF SECRET CORRESPONDENCE.
August 10th, 1776.