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FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790), American Founding Father. Autograph letter signed ("B. Franklin"), with flourish, to Monsieur Caccia, Passy, 8 March 1780. 1 page, 4to, lower portion of letter, including signature, slightly pale. Framed.
A FORGETFUL FRANKLIN WRITES FROM PASSY IN 1780. Just about halfway through his momentous and pleasurable eight-year tenure as American ambassador to France, Franklin makes a frank admission of forgetfulness: "I unfortunately mislaid M. Cavallier's Letter & have totally forgotten the Subject of it, or I should have answer'd it long since. If you can make me recollect the purport of it, I will send you an Answer immediately." Franklin was 74 years old in 1780--at a time when most men did not live past 60. Yet his vital years were not over. Having already garnered the crucial French treaty in 1778, Franklin ran the American delegation until 1785, setting up his own press to handle the routine consular work of passports and visas, and at the same time fending off the problems caused by his obstreperous colleague, John Adams. He continued to negotiate more loans, assisted American naval officers in Europe, worked for the release or exchange of prisoners of war (and tried, when he could, to fund the passage home of escaped American captives). Famously lionized by French society, his geriatric problems mounted in the form of gout and gall stones. But he returned to Philadelphia to play one more crucial role in founding the American nation, at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
A FORGETFUL FRANKLIN WRITES FROM PASSY IN 1780. Just about halfway through his momentous and pleasurable eight-year tenure as American ambassador to France, Franklin makes a frank admission of forgetfulness: "I unfortunately mislaid M. Cavallier's Letter & have totally forgotten the Subject of it, or I should have answer'd it long since. If you can make me recollect the purport of it, I will send you an Answer immediately." Franklin was 74 years old in 1780--at a time when most men did not live past 60. Yet his vital years were not over. Having already garnered the crucial French treaty in 1778, Franklin ran the American delegation until 1785, setting up his own press to handle the routine consular work of passports and visas, and at the same time fending off the problems caused by his obstreperous colleague, John Adams. He continued to negotiate more loans, assisted American naval officers in Europe, worked for the release or exchange of prisoners of war (and tried, when he could, to fund the passage home of escaped American captives). Famously lionized by French society, his geriatric problems mounted in the form of gout and gall stones. But he returned to Philadelphia to play one more crucial role in founding the American nation, at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.