1From Benjamin Franklin to Genet, [1778 or after] (Franklin Papers)
AL : Library of Congress All the American Papers will be sent to Mr Genet this Evening. Mr Franklin sends the enclos’d four, for a Beginning. Addressed: A Monsr / Monsieur Genet / Bureau des Interprêtes / Versailles BF and Genet began exchanging newspapers and other information soon after the signing of the alliance: XXVI , 271n. This note could date from this or subsequent years.
2Editorial Note on Franklin’s Accounts, 1778 (Franklin Papers)
For the period covered by this volume we have four new accounts: XIX. Franklin’s Account with Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont, June 12, 1777, to May 28, 1784: American Philosophical Society, 18 pp. With the exception of an item for repairs to the packet La Mère Bobie ( XXIV , 3n) dated June 12, 1777, all the entries are dated January 1, 1779, or after. Accompanying the statements of...
M.T. Cicero’s Cato Major, or Discourse on Old Age. Addressed to Titus Pomponius Atticus. With Explanatory Notes. By Benj. Franklin, LL. D. London: Printed for Fielding and Walker, Pater-Noster Row. MDCCLXXVIII. James Logan’s translation of Cicero’s discourse on old age was first printed on Franklin’s press in Philadelphia in 1744 with Franklin’s preface, “The Printer to the Reader.” The...
4Franklin: A List of Names [1778?] (Franklin Papers)
AD : American Philosophical Society The list is so heterogeneous that we tentatively suggest its purpose was social. Six of the men listed here were BF ’s colleagues in the Académie royale des sciences: the mathematician Condorcet ( XX , 489n), the chemist Lavoisier ( XXIV , 142n), the philosophe and former government minister Turgot ( XXIII , 479), the marquis de Courtanvaux (a soldier and...
5Marie Silvestre Grand to Franklin and John Adams, [1778?] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Mde Grand prie Messieurs Franklin et adams de venir prendre le thé cette a près midi chez elle mr le roi y sera et fera la parti du cher papa. Addressed: A Monsieur / Monsieur Franklin Mme. Ferdinand Grand, whose last extant invitation to the commissioners had been in May, 1778: XXVI , 399–400. While the present letter may date from JA ’s return to Paris in...
6To Benjamin Franklin from Edward Bancroft, [1778?] (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I inclose you a Letter which came to my hands last Evening & wh. needs no Comment from me— Mr. Grand commissioned me to desire that you would this Evening favour him with something which is to be sent to Amsterdam & wh. he shall have an opportunity of sending early tomorrow Morning— Not finding you at home I am constrained to execute my Commission in this...
7To Benjamin Franklin from Madame Brillon, [1778?] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society j’avois chargé mr L’abbé de st non d’amenér ce soir chéz moi a l’heure du thé mr charpentiér l’habil méchanicien dont je vous ai parlé pour des présses; il est impossible a l’abbé de venir ce soir, et mr. charpentiér bien empréssé de vous estre présenté, est venu m’apportér la léttre de l’abbé; il vous reméttra ce mot; C’est un homme de la plus grande...
8To Benjamin Franklin from Madame Brillon: Five Social Notes circa 1778 (Franklin Papers)
(I), (II), (III), (IV), (V) AL : American Philosophical Society Mon bon papa, j’éspére que vous viendrés prendre le thé cétte aprés disné; je ne sçaurois vous dire a qu’el point je m’énnuye de ne vous point voir, c’est aussi vrai qu’il est vrai que pérsonne dans les quatre parties du monde ne vous aime autant que moi: L’envie extrésme que j’ai toujours de passér quelques moments avéc vous mon...
9To Benjamin Franklin from Chaumont: Three Memoirs, [1778?] (Franklin Papers)
(I) and (II) AD : University of Pennsylvania Library; (III) D : University of Pennsylvania Library Liquidation des dettes de L’amerique emprunt Cent millions interest du dit emprunt quatre millions Les 13 provinces Reserveront Chascunes dans leur Continent Cent milles acres de forest sur lesquels il y aura Cent Pieds d’arbres propres a la Construction des vaisseaux, sur Chasque acre. Ces...
10To Benjamin Franklin from Madame Brillon: Four Letters before November 30, 1778 (Franklin Papers)
(I) AL : American Philosophical Society; (II) ALS : American Philosophical Society; (III) and (IV) AL : American Philosophical Society We are grouping together four letters from Madame Brillon, three of them unsigned and none completely dated, which appear to be interrelated and to precede her letter of November 30, below. Fragile as it is, we offer here a chronological reconstruction based...