{"product_id":"the-papers-of-benjamin-franklin-benjamin-franklin-9780300267952","title":"The Papers of Benjamin Franklin: Volume 44: March 16 Through September 13, 1785; Supplementary Documents, December, 1776, Through July, 1785 Volume 44","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis volume in the venerable \u003ci\u003ePapers of Benjamin Franklin\u003c\/i\u003e covers March 16 through September 12, 1785, Franklin's final days as minister to France and his voyage home\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Franklin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300267959\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300267952\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 768\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Benjamin Franklin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46739116818687,"sku":"9780300267952","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7a2fc0cf-ddf0-46d1-bb1c-a31958d78ca9.jpg?v=1743277264","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-papers-of-benjamin-franklin-benjamin-franklin-9780300267952","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}