PUBLIC LIBRARY

Appointed by the Governor, on behalf of the Commonwealth:

SAMUEL ABBOTT GREEN, LL.D., CHAIRMAN
LINDSAY SWIFT, SECRETARY
PATRICK J. GUERIN
C. B. TILLINGHAST, LITT. D.

EDWARD H. CLEMENT, LITT. D.

Appointed by the Mayor, on behalf of the City of Boston:

HENRY SMITH PRITCHETT, LL.D., CHAIRMAN
RT. REV. MGR. WILLIAM BYRNE, D.D.
JAMES J. PHELAN, TREASURER
MARTIN T. JOYCE

FRANCIS H. MANNING

Acting Secretary:

EDWARD S. SEARS

CONTENTS

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Introduction

Form of Invitation

Programme of Exercises

Prayer by the Rev. Dr. George A. Gordon

Introductory Remarks by the Chairman

Address by Governor Curtis Guild, Jr.

Impromptu Remarks by Ambassador Jusserand

Address by Mayor John F. Fitzgerald

Cable Message to the President of France

History of the Franklin Fund, by Dr. Henry S. Pritchett

Oration by the Hon. Carroll D. Wright

Poem by the Hon. James Jeffrey Roche

Concluding Exercises

APPENDIX A: Resolve of the General Court for the Celebration

APPENDIX B: Order of the City Council in Concurrence with the

above

APPENDIX C: Resolve of the General Court authorizing the publi-

cation of this volume

APPENDIX D: Order of the City Council in Concurrence with the

above

APPENDIX E: Selections from Franklin's writings prepared for use

in the Public Schools of Boston, by Lindsay

Swift, Esq.

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INTRODUCTION