The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. VII Letters and Misc. Writings 1775-1779

Volume 7 of a 12 volume collection of Franklin’s works. Vol. 7 contains letters and miscellaneous writings from 1775 to 1779 when he was the first United States Postmaster General (July, 1775 – November, 1776) and then United States Minister to France (September, 1778 – May, 1785).
The Works of Benjamin Franklin, including the Private as well as the Official and Scientific Correspondence, together with the Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography, compiled and edited by John Bigelow (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904). The Federal Edition in 12 volumes. Vol. VII (Letters and Misc. Writings 1775-1779).
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- Author: Benjamin Franklin
- Editor: John Bigelow
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII
- DXCVIII: AN ACCOUNT OF NEGOTIATIONS IN LONDON FOR EFFECTING A RECONCILIATION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE AMERICAN COLONIES (Continued.)
- TO JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
- TO MRS. JANE MECOM
- TO MR. STRAHAN1
- TO JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
- TO MRS. MARY HEWSON
- TO PETER V. B. LIVINGSTON1
- TO JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
- TO A FRIEND IN ENGLAND1
- TO CHARLES W. F. DUMAS1
- TO HIS MOST SERENE HIGHNESS, DON GABRIEL OF BOURBON
- DCIX: ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION AND PERPETUAL UNION, PROPOSED IN GENERAL CONGRESS1
- DCX: VINDICATION AND OFFER FROM CONGRESS TO PARLIAMENT2
- DCXI: THE BRITISH NATION, AS IT APPEARED TO THE COLONISTS IN 17751
- TO CHARLES LEE1
- TO CHARLES LEE
- FROM DAVID HARTLEY1
- TO PHILIP SCHUYLER1
- TO LORD STIRLING1
- TO JOSIAH QUINCY
- TO PHILIP SCHUYLER
- TO THE COMMISSIONERS IN CANADA1
- TO GEORGE WASHINGTON
- TO HORATIO GATES
- DCXXII: SKETCH OF PROPOSITIONS FOR A PEACE1
- TO PHILIP MAZZEI
- DCXXIV: CORRESPONDENCE AND INTERVIEW WITH LORD HOWE1
- FROM LORD HOWE
- TO LORD HOWE
- FROM LORD HOWE
- TO LORD HOWE
- FROM LORD HOWE
- TO THOMAS MORRIS
- TO SILAS DEANE
- TO M. BARBEU DUBOURG
- TO JOHN HANCOCK, PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS2
- TO THE COMMITTEE OF SECRET CORRESPONDENCE
- TO THE COUNT DE VERGENNES
- DCXXXI: COMPARISON OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES IN REGARD TO THE BASIS OF CREDIT IN THE TWO COUNTRIES1
- TO THE COMMITTEE OF SECRET CORRESPONDENCE
- TO MRS. MARY HEWSON
- TO JULIANA RITCHIE
- TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS
- TO MR. T. MORRIS
- INSTRUCTIONS TO CAPT. NICHOLSON
- SUPPOSED TO BE TO M. MONTAUDOIN
- TO MRS. MARY HEWSON
- TO JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
- FROM WILLIAM DODD
- TO JOHN INGENHOUSZ
- TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORD GEORGE SACKVILLE GERMAINE, ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL SECRETARIES OF STATE TO THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN
- TO MRS. THOMPSON, AT LISLE
- TO GENERAL WASHINGTON1
- FROM GEORGIANA SHIPLEY
- FROM THE COUNT DE SCHAUMBERGH TO THE BARON HOHENDORF, COMMANDING THE HESSIAN TROOPS IN AMERICA
- TO RICHARD PETERS1
- TO ARTHUR LEE1
- TO M. LITH
- TO COUNT D’ARANDA, SPANISH AMBASSADOR TO THE COURT OF FRANCE
- TO MR. RYBOT
- TO RICHARD BACHE, ESQ.
- TO THE BISHOP OF TRICOMIE
- TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE VISCOUNT DE PONTE DE LIMA, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE KINGDOM OF PORTUGAL
- TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE AMBASSADOR FROM PORTUGAL
- TO THOMAS CUSHING
- TO SAMUEL COOPER
- TO JOHN WINTHROP
- TO A FRIEND
- TO GEORGE WASHINGTON
- TO GEORGE WASHINGTON
- TO CAPT. JOHNSON
- TO GEN. WASHINGTON
- TO RICHARD PETERS
- TO DAVID HARTLEY
- TO A FRIEND1
- TO CAPTAIN THOMPSON AND C. HINMAN
- TO MR. THORNTON
- TO SIR GREY COOPER
- TO JAMES LOVELL1
- DCLXXII: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN BRITAIN, FRANCE, SPAIN, HOLLAND, SAXONY, AND AMERICA
- DCLXXIII: A CATECHISM RELATIVE TO THE ENGLISH NATIONAL DEBT
- TO RALPH IZARD
- TO JAMES HUTTON1
- TO DAVID HARTLEY
- TO THOMAS CUSHING
- TO ARTHUR LEE
- TO M. GÉRARD
- TO M. GÉRARD
- TO DAVID HARTLEY
- TO MRS. CATHERINE GREENE
- A TRUE HISTORY OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE COLONIES AND THE AUTHOR OF THE STAMP ACT
- TO ARTHUR LEE
- TO JAMES HUTTON
- TO RALPH IZARD
- TO WILLIAM PULTENEY1
- TO MR. PRESIDENT LAURENS
- TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS
- TO MONSIEUR GÉRARD
- TO ARTHUR LEE
- TO ARTHUR LEE
- TO ARTHUR LEE
- TO THE GRAND PENSIONARY OF HOLLAND
- TO M. DUMAS1
- TO EDWARD BANCROFT1
- FROM DAVID HARTLEY
- DR. FRANKLIN’S ANSWER
- TO COUNT DE VERGENNES
- FROM THE COUNT DE VERGENNES
- TO MR. JN. ROSS1
- TO ARTHUR LEE
- TO DAVID HARTLEY
- TO JOHN PAUL JONES
- TO JOHN PAUL JONES
- TO JOHN PAUL JONES
- TO DAVID HARTLEY
- TO JAMES HUTTON
- TO AN ENGRAVER IN PARIS
- PROPOSED LETTER TO LORD NORTH1 CONCERNING PRISONERS
- TO CHARLES DE WEISSENSTEIN1
- TO MR. GRAND
- TO DAVID HARTLEY
- TO JAMES LOVELL
- TO DAVID HARTLEY
- TO JOHN PAUL JONES
- TO DAVID HARTLEY
- DCCXVII: FRANKLIN’S NOTES ON THE CONDITION OF HIS HEALTH FROM 1778-80
- TO F. GRAND1
- TO DAVID HARTLEY
- TO DAVID HARTLEY
- TO MR. GRAND
- TO DAVID HARTLEY
- TO DR. PRIESTLEY (PROBABLY)
- DCCXXIV: B. FRANKLIN’S PERSONAL EXPENSE ACCOUNT WITH CONGRESS DURING HIS FIRST TWO YEARS’ OFFICIAL RESIDENCE IN PARIS
- DCCXXV: THE EPHEMERA: AN EMBLEM OF HUMAN LIFE
- TO MADAME BRILLON, OF PASSY
- DCCXXVI: THE WHISTLE
- TO MADAME BRILLON
- DCCXXVII: A PETITION OF THE LEFT HAND
- DCCXXVIII: SKETCH OF AN ENGLISH SCHOOL
- DCCXXIX: THE HANDSOME AND DEFORMED LEG
- DCCXXX: MORALS OF CHESS
- DCCXXXI: A TALE
- DCCXXXII: AN ARABIAN TALE
- DCCXXXIII: AURORA BOREALIS1
- DCCXXXIV: TO MADAME HELVETIUS
- DCCXXXV: TO MADAME HELVETIUS, AT AUTEUIL
- TO L’ABBÉ DE LA ROCHE, AT AUTEUIL
- DCCXXXVII: TO L’ABBÉ DE LA ROCHE
- TO L’ABBÉ MORELLET
- DCCXXXIX: AN ECONOMICAL PROJECT
- DCCXL: THE LEVEE1
- DCCXLI: PROPOSED NEW VERSION OF THE BIBLE
- DCCXLII: APOLOGUE1
- FROM SAMUEL COOPER TO B. FRANKLIN
- TO RALPH IZARD1
- TO THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS
- FROM DAVID HARTLEY
- TO DAVID HARTLEY
- TO MRS. MARGARET STEVENSON
- TO MESSRS. LLOYD AND OTHERS
- TO DAVID HARTLEY
- Scene.—Mount’s Bay.
- TO JONATHAN WILLIAMS, JR.
- TO ARTHUR LEE
- TO M. DUMAS
- FROM ARTHUR LEE
- TO DAVID HARTLEY
- TO DAVID HARTLEY
- TO COUNT DE VERGENNES
- TO VERGENNES
- TO PATRICK HENRY, GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA
- TO VERGENNES
- PASSPORTS FOR MORAVIAN VESSELS, AND FOR CAPTAIN COOK1
- TO MM. HILLS, PARKES, ADAMS, DEGGE, BUCKLEY, ELWOOD, AND WARREN, OFFICERS ON BOARD THE “ALLIANCE”
- TO ARTHUR LEE
- TO MESSRS. W. BLAKE, D. BLAKE, J. JOHNSON, P. R. FENDALL, J. WHARTON, M. RIDLEY, I. ROSS, — LLOYD, — OGILVIE, AND J. D. SCHWEIGHAUSER, MERCHANTS NOW AT NANTES
- TO HONORABLE ARTHUR LEE, ESQ.
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