1From Benjamin Franklin to Anne-Catherine de Ligniville Helvétius: Two Editions of “The Elysian Fields”, [c. 1 January … (Franklin Papers)
(I) Printed by Benjamin Franklin, Passy [1780], Yale University Library; AL and copy: American Philosophical Society; copy: Yale University Library; (II) Printed by Benjamin Franklin, Passy [1780], Yale University Library For a letter of so ostensibly personal a nature, “The Elysian Fields” was widely circulated among the Auteuil circle and made public very quickly. Franklin himself, after...