Contents
Introduction
Chronology
Pehr Kalm, [Speaking about Natural History, 1748]
Daniel Fisher, [Extracts from the Diary, 1755]
House of Commons, The Examination of Doctor Benjamin Franklin (1767)
Joseph Priestley, [Science, Religion, and Politics in London, 1769, 1795, 1802]
Josiah Quincy, Jr., [Franklin in London, 1774–1775]
John Adams, [Franklin as a Congressman and a Diplomat, 1775–1778]
Abigail Adams, [Franklin in Boston and Paris, 1775 and 1784]
Philip Gibbes, [Two Conversations with Benjamin Franklin, 1777–1778]
Arthur Lee, [Extracts from the Journal, 1777]
William Greene, [Franklin at Passy, 1778]
John Baynes, [Franklin at Passy, 1783]
Andrew Ellicott, [This Venerable Nestor of America, 1785]
Benjamin Rush, [The Wisdom and Experience of Mellow Old Age, 1785–1789, 1805, 1806]
Winthrop Sargent, [My Dinner with Franklin, 1786]
Manasseh Cutler, [A Visit to Franklin Court, 1787]
James Madison, [Franklin during the Constitutional Convention, 1787]
Mary Stevenson Hewson, “Closing Scenes of Dr. Franklin’s Life: In a Letter from an Eye-Witness” (1790)
John Jones, “Short Account of Dr. Franklin’s Last Illness by His Attending Physician” (1790)
Louis Lefebvre de La Roche, “On Franklin” (1800)
Thomas Jefferson, [Anecdotes of Doctor Franklin, 1818 and 1821]
William Temple Franklin, [Anecdotes Relative to Dr. Franklin, 1818]
Robert Aspland, [A Conversation with Franklin’s London Friends, 1821]
André Morellet, [Memories of Franklin, 1821]
Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, [A Short Account of Benjamin Franklin, 1825]
Roberts Vaux and a Canadian Numismatist, [The Sawdust Pudding Supper: Two Versions, 1835 and 1875]
Deborah Norris Logan, [Memoir of Dr. George Logan of Stenton, 1839]
Robert Carr, “Personal Recollections of Benjamin Franklin” (1864)
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