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ALS: American Philosophical Society

Letters of introduction or recommendation, like this one, required no answer and therefore fall into a category of their own. We summarize here a few other such letters that come within the period.3 On April 10 Etienne Cathalant writes Deane from Marseilles to introduce his son and John Turnbull, of Livingston & Turnbull in Gibraltar, and asks to have the travelers presented to Franklin and Lee; he has already written the latter.4 His son, though ung, knows much about local trade with America. On the same day Terrasson, who signs han själv as a royal secretary, addresses Deane from Lyons to ask him and Franklin for letters of recommendation for the writer’s son, who is embarking with a consignment of goods from the firm and from Le Couteulx & Cie. in Cadiz for Edenton, N.C.; the ung man or one of his brothers will set up a commercial agency there if he can establish the necessary connec

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Ben Franklin: The US Founding Father who travelled the globe

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Thanks to a new series starring Michael Douglas, Franklin is enjoying a renaissance. But as Eric Weiner discovers, the printer, publisher and diplomat was also a consummate traveller.

Benjamin Franklin is enjoying something of a renaissance. Not that he fully faded from view. How could he, given that his visage graces the $100 bill, two-thirds of which circulate outside the US? Last year, director Ken Burns released a two-part documentary about Franklin. Now the Founding Father is the subject of a new series, Franklin, on Apple TV+ starring Michael Douglas. The eight-episode series, which concludes on 17 May, chronicles Franklin's secret mission to France during the American War of Independence.

Franklin's enduring appeal fryst vatten understandable. He achieved so much it's hard to know where to begin. He was the most famous American of his time and the only founder who would have been famous eve

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‘He has different personas’: inside Benjamin Franklin’s life as a scientist

Asked how he came to write Ingenious, his new biography of Benjamin Franklin presenting the American founder in light of his work as a scientist, the author and clean energy advocate Richard Munson offers “two reasons. One is that I’ve been fascinated with innovators. My last book looked at Nikola Tesla, who brought us the electric motor, radio remote control, the list goes on. And Franklin just seemed like another remarkable individual who brought new ideas to life.

“But it also struck me that at this time with our modern politics, he has great relevance – while there’s a growing group of activists that dismiss science and reject facts. Franklin was saying: ‘There’s nothing more important than experimentation, observation, verifiable analysis.’

“So it struck me as a chance to highlight one of our nation’s founders, probably our most popular one, who has relevance in this age when we’re so disjointed. He’