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To Benjamin Franklin from the Principe di Caramanico, 10 October 1784

From the Principe di Caramanico3

AL: American Philosophical Society

a Paris ce 10. octobre 1784
Hotel Montmorency chaussée d’Antin./.

Le Prince de Caramanico Ambassadeur Extraordinaire du Roy des siciles a L’honneur de faire part a Monsieur Francklin Ministre Plenipotentiaire des Etats unis de L’Amerique, qu’il a eû ce Jourd’huy ses premieres Audiences de Leurs Majestés & de La famille Royale./.

Notation: Le Prince Caramanico 10 Oct. 1784—4

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

3. Franceso Maria Venanzio d’Aquino, principe di Caramanico, served as ambassador from the Two Sicilies from Oct. 10, 1784, to Jan. 17, 1785, when chargé d’affaires Luigi Pio once again took over the legation: Dizionario biografico degli Italiani (73 vols. to date, Rome, 1960— ), under Aquino; Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreter, 111, 423; Jules Flammermont, Rapport à M. le ministre de l’instruction publique sur les correspondances des agents diplomatiques étrangers en France avant la Revolution … (Paris, 1896), pp. 439–40.

4. On the verso is a name and address: “Chateaufort Rue des jeuneurs maison de mde de glatigny”. This might have been the chevalier d’Avistay (Aristay) de Chateaufort, who was warmly recommended to BF by Rayneval: XLI, 362n; XLII, 251. Elsewhere on the verso are two identical lines of Hebrew letters.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from the Principe di Caramanico, 10 October 1784
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    10 October 1784

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from the Principe di Caramanico, 10 October 1784,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-43-02-0107. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 43, August 16, 1784, through March 15, 1785, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, p. 173.]