Benjamin Franklin. John Torrey Morse

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

       CHAPTER I

       EARLY YEARS

       CHAPTER II

       A CITIZEN OF PHILADELPHIA: CONCERNMENT IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS

       CHAPTER III

       REPRESENTATIVE OF PENNSYLVANIA IN ENGLAND: RETURN HOME

       CHAPTER IV

       LIFE IN PHILADELPHIA

       CHAPTER V

       SECOND MISSION TO ENGLAND, I

       CHAPTER VI

       SECOND MISSION TO ENGLAND, II

       CHAPTER VII

       SECOND MISSION TO ENGLAND, III THE HUTCHINSON LETTERS: THE PRIVY COUNCIL SCENE: RETURN HOME

       CHAPTER VIII

       SERVICES IN THE STATES

       CHAPTER IX

       MINISTER TO FRANCE, I DEANE AND BEAUMARCHAIS: FOREIGN OFFICERS

       CHAPTER X

       MINISTER TO FRANCE, II PRISONERS: TROUBLE WITH LEE AND OTHERS

       CHAPTER XI

       MINISTER TO FRANCE, III TREATY WITH FRANCE: MORE QUARRELS

       CHAPTER XII

       FINANCIERING

       CHAPTER XIII

       HABITS OF LIFE AND OF BUSINESS: AN ADAMS INCIDENT

       CHAPTER XIV

       PEACE NEGOTIATIONS: LAST YEARS IN FRANCE

       CHAPTER XV

       AT HOME: PRESIDENT OF PENNSYLVANIA: THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION: DEATH

       INDEX

ILLUSTRATIONS

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       Benjamin Franklin

      From the original by Jean Baptiste Greuze, in the Boston Public Library. It was painted for Benjamin Franklin as a gift to Richard Oswald, the English commissioner associated with him in the peace negotiations of 1782. Gardner Brewer of Boston bought the painting in 1872 and presented it to the Library.

      Autograph from the Declaration of Independence.

      The vignette of Independence Hall is after a drawing in the possession of the American Bank Note Co., Philadelphia.

       Count Vergennes

      From the frontispiece to Doniol, "Histoire de la Participation de la France à l'Establissement des Etats-Unis d'Amérique," Paris, 1886, 5 vols., 4to. vol. i.; an engraving by Vangelisti, from the original painting by Antoine Francois Callet.

      Autograph from same book.

      Lord Hillsborough (Born Wills Hill; afterwards Marquis of Downshire)

      From a painting by J. Rising, owned by Lord Salisbury.

      Autograph from MS. collection in the New York

       Public Library, Lenox Building.

       Paul Jones

      From the original portrait by C. W. Peale in Independence

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