Autograph letter signed from François Astori to Benjamin Franklin, written from Naples and dated 13 March 1779
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CMV33091
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Mss.B.F85inventory04, XIII, 191, ‘Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 4 — Letters to Franklin’
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Autograph letter signed from François Astori to Benjamin Franklin, written from Naples and dated 13 March 1779
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Brief Summary:
A collection of letters to Benjamin Franklin dated January 1779-November 1779.
Detailed Summary:
Included in the collection is an autograph letter signed from François Astori to Benjamin Franklin, written from Naples and dated 13 March 1779. In the letter, Astori pays Franklin extravagant compliments. He goes on to speak of Franklin having introduced his grand-son to Voltaire, adding that he might say like Ovid did of Virgil; “Virgilium vidi.”
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4 pp.
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History
Date:
13 March 1779
Ownership:
Bequeathed to William Temple Franklin by Benjamin Franklin in his will of 17 July 1788. The papers were stored at Champlost, a country estate owned by George Fox who agreed to take care of them for William Temple Franklin. Temple took a selection of letters and documents to prepare an autobiography of Benjamin Franklin but died without returning to the United States of Americe. After his death on 25 May 1823, the manuscripts in his possession were discovered in London and eventually given to the Library of Congress. The remaining material at Champlost was formally bequeathed to Fox who in turn left the papers to his children, Charles Pemberton Fox and Mary Fox.
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Naples
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Bequeathed to William Temple Franklin by Benjamin Franklin in his will of 17 July 1788. The papers were stored at Champlost, a country estate owned by George Fox who agreed to take care of them for William Temple Franklin. Temple took a selection of letters and documents to prepare an autobiography of Benjamin Franklin but died without returning to the United States of America. After his death on 25 May 1823, the manuscripts in his possession were discovered in London and eventually given to the Library of Congress. The remaining material at Champlost was formally bequeathed to Fox who in turn left the papers to his children, Charles Pemberton Fox and Mary Fox. The MSS were given to the American Philosophical Society by Charles Pemberton Fox and Mary Fox in 1840. A second large grouping of documents were given to the Society in 1936 as a gift from Franklin and Nannie Bache.
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