To Benjamin Franklin from Bariatinskii, 9 September 1783
From Bariatinskii
L: American Philosophical Society
Mardy 9. 7bre. 1783./.
Le Prince Bariatinskoy a l’honneur de remercier Monsieur franklein de la communication, qu’il a bien voulû Lui faire du Traite de Paix.9
Notation: Bariatinskoy 9. 7bre 1783—
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
9. The next day, Bariatinskii sent Empress Catherine II two gifts from BF: a Libertas Americana medal with its explanation (XXXIX, 549–55) and a copy of Constitutions des treize Etats-Unis de l’Amérique. Nina N. Bashkina et al., eds., The United States and Russia: the Beginning of Relations, 1765–1815 ([Washington, D.C., 1980]), p. 209.