John Torrey Morse
Benjamin Franklin
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066147440
Table of Contents
A CITIZEN OF PHILADELPHIA: CONCERNMENT IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS
REPRESENTATIVE OF PENNSYLVANIA IN ENGLAND: RETURN HOME
SECOND MISSION TO ENGLAND, III THE HUTCHINSON LETTERS: THE PRIVY COUNCIL SCENE: RETURN HOME
MINISTER TO FRANCE, I DEANE AND BEAUMARCHAIS: FOREIGN OFFICERS
MINISTER TO FRANCE, II PRISONERS: TROUBLE WITH LEE AND OTHERS
MINISTER TO FRANCE, III TREATY WITH FRANCE: MORE QUARRELS
HABITS OF LIFE AND OF BUSINESS: AN ADAMS INCIDENT
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS: LAST YEARS IN FRANCE
AT HOME: PRESIDENT OF PENNSYLVANIA: THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION: DEATH
ILLUSTRATIONS
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.
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
Hall.
Autograph from MS. collection in Library of Boston
Athenæum.
Sea-fight between the Serapis and Bon Homme Richard
Off Flamborough Head, September 3, 1779. Paul Jones's ship, in compliment to the author of "Poor Richard's Maxims," was named "Bon Homme Richard." Captain Pearson, who commanded the Serapis, was knighted for his heroic resistance. Paul Jones, tradition says, on hearing of the honor conferred on Pearson, good-naturedly observed, "If I ever meet him again, I'll make a lord of him."
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
CHAPTER I