The Papers of Benjamin Franklin: Volume 41: September 16, 1783, Through February 29, 1784 Volume 41 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300203745)

The forty-first volume of the collected writings and correspondences of the American statesman, ambassador, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin

After the signing of the definitive peace treaty on September 3, 1783, Franklin's official duties as minister plenipotentiary diminished. He concluded a draft consular convention with France, but Great Britain did not act on the articles for a commercial agreement that he negotiated with David Hartley, and Congress did not ratify the draft treaties of commerce with Denmark and Portugal that he had sent to Philadelphia the previous summer. In his welcome leisure time, however, Franklin followed scientific developments (witnessing the first balloon ascensions in Paris), advised the French government on schemes for civic improvement (making cornbread and building coal-burning stoves), and wrote three of his most remarkable pieces about what it meant to be American.

Author: Benjamin Franklin
ISBN-10: 0300203748
ISBN-13: 9780300203745
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2014
Pages: 760
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.35lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.00w x 1.90d