Download or read book Benjamin Franklin a Register and Index of His Papers in the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress. Manuscript Division and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book List of the Benjamin Franklin Papers in the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress. Manuscript Division and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Papers of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the signing of the definitive peace treaty on September 3, 1783, Franklin’s official duties as minister plenipotentiary diminished. Great Britain refused to negotiate a commercial agreement, and Congress failed to act on the draft treaties of commerce with Denmark and Portugal that Franklin had sent them the previous summer. In the six months after the peace was settled, Franklin’s sole diplomatic achievement was a draft consular convention with France. With his welcome leisure time, however, Franklin eagerly followed scientific developments (witnessing the first balloon ascensions in Paris), advised the French government on schemes for civic improvement, and wrote three of his most remarkable pieces about what it meant to be American.
Download or read book The Papers of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the venerable Papers of Benjamin Franklin covers March 16 through September 12, 1785, Franklin's final days as minister to France and his voyage home This volume covers Franklin's final months as minister to France and his voyage back to America. He received his long-awaited permission from Congress to return home; accepted the king's parting gift of a miniature portrait surrounded by diamonds; settled his accounts; and arranged passage for himself and his two grandsons on a ship bound from England to Philadelphia. Franklin instructed the French government on the culinary uses of maize and wrote a lengthy "eye-witness" account of China that includes directions for making tofu. His last public act in France was signing the Prussian-American Treaty of Commerce, which contained three unprecedented articles: the two he wrote in 1782 guaranteeing protections during wartime for noncombatants, and a third guaranteeing humane treatment for prisoners of war. On the English coast, Franklin met with his Loyalist son William and witnessed William's signing over his American property to his son William Temple Franklin. Aboard the London Packet, Franklin wrote three scientific papers, including the copiously illustrated "Maritime Observations." His original line drawings are reproduced here for the first time. The volume ends with an appendix containing supplementary documents from the French mission.
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Download or read book LIST OF THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN written by Worthington Chauncey 1858-1941 Ford and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book List of the Benjamin Franklin Papers in the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress (Wash.) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book List of the Benjamin Franklin Papers written by Worthington Chauncey Ford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from List of the Benjamin Franklin Papers: In the Library of Congress In 1880 announcement was made in London that certain papers of Benjamin Franklin were to be sold at auction. The history of these papers was as follows: They -were bequeathed to William Temple Franklin by Dr. Franklin, and were used by him in the preparation of his edition of 'Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin, ' 3 vols., London, 8 vo. [1818]; they bear ample evidence of his editorial work, a large quantity of matter having been struck out; in fact, in printing his grandfather's works, he seems to have proceeded on the idea of omitting everything which reflected on the British Government. Many of the private letters and other papers are also unpublished. After the death of William Temple Franklin [in 1823] the papers were for some years in the possession of his landlord, a tailor, in London, who disposed of them, some thirty years back, to Mr. Henry Stevens, where they have since remained.- The sale was ordered by the executors of Charles Whittingham, to whom they had been pledged as security by Henry Stevens, a settlement of the Whittingham estate being necessary. The public sale was postponed and the entire collection was offered at private sale to the United States Government. The purchase was consummated in 1882. The collection contained not only manuscripts of Franklin but also many letters to him, state papers, diplomatic record books, and printed books and newspapers. At the time of the purchase a division was made, the manuscripts going to the Department of State, and the printed matter to the Library of Congress. And when the general transfer of the manuscripts was made by the Department of State to the Library of Congress, under the Executive order of March 9, 1903, the diplomatic records were retained in that Department. What is known as the -second series- was transferred, a collection bound in fourteen volumes, with a few additional pieces, such as the -Articles of Belief- and the letter to Strahan. In Senate Miscellaneous Document No. 21, 47th Congress, 1st session, was printed a list of the entire Stevens's collection of Franklin material; but that list is of little or no service to the student of history or the antiquarian. The arrangement was defective and the many errors in names and dates proved misleading. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book List of the Benjamin Franklin Papers in the Library of Congress written by Worthington Chauncey Ford and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book List of the Benjamin Franklin Papers in the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress Manuscript Division and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin written by Douglas Anderson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the famed inventor as a literary adept whose approach to autobiographical narrative was as innovative and radical as the inventions and political thought for which he is renowned. Veers from the familiar practices of traditional biographies, viewing history through the lens of the literary imagination rather than the other way around.
Download or read book The Papers of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forty-second volume of the collected writings and correspondences of the American statesman, ambassador, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin In the spring of 1784, Franklin, John Jay, and British negotiator David Hartley exchanged ratifications of the definitive British-American peace treaty. Hoping for permission from Congress to return home, Franklin settled his accounts, negotiated a French consular convention, headed a royal commission to investigate animal magnetism, wrote several scientific theories, and published his well-known satire about rising with the sun. As the volume ends, Thomas Jefferson brings news of a diplomatic assignment that would keep Franklin in France for another year.
Download or read book List of the Benjamin Franklin Papers in the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Benjamin Franklin written by Christopher J. Murrey and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Franklin is generally considered one of America's most versatile and talented statesmen, scientists, and philosophers. His achievements include publisher of Poor Richard's Almanac and many articles on political, economic, religious, philosophical and scientific subjects. He was the inventor of bifocals, the Franklin stove, lightening rod, he was one of the signers of the 'Declaration of Independence', and the founder of, what is now the University of Pennsylvania. This book presents a detailed and riveting review of Franklin's life based on excerpts from the renowned 1899 book on Franklin by Sydney George Fisher. This overview is augmented by a substantial selective bibliography, which features access through title, subject and author indexes.
