The dispatches that carried the instruction to Paris. No. 18 is in cipher. The signed original of Nos. 17 and 18 is in the Franklin Papers, University of Pennsylvania.
Where it is kept
National Archives, Papers of the Continental Congress, Item 118 (transcripts of Livingston’s foreign letters), pp. 259 to 267 and 289 to 291. NAID 2316043. Office fair copies made in 1783.