To Benjamin Vaughan. 24 October, 1788.

Memoirs of his Life. -Turkish War.- Price and Priest-

ley. - Heresy.

To Mrs. Elizabeth Partridge. 25 November.

To Mrs. Jane Mecom. 26 November.

To Charles Thomson. 29 November.

Dr. Franklin's Public Services.

To the President of Congress. 29 November.

Requesting a Settlement of his Accounts.

1789.

To Alexander Small. 17 February.

To Mrs. Catherine Greene. 2 March.

To Miss Catherine Louisa Shipley. 27 April.

On the Death of her Father.

.

To Charles Carroll. 25 May.

To Richard Price. 31 May.

From M. Le Veillard to B. Franklin. 25 April.

State of Affairs in France. - Duke of Orleans.

Reflections on Life and Death.

From Miss Catherine L. Shipley to B. Franklin. 24 Dec. 379

On the Death of her Father, the Bishop of St. Asaph.

From Richard Price to B. Franklin. December.

Death of the Bishop of St. Asaph.- Dr. Rush.

Constitution.-Affairs in England.

To the Abbé Morellet. 30 December.

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Federal

To John Wright. 4 November.

United States. - Abolition of the Slave Trade.

From the Princess of Daschkoff to B. Franklin. 4 Nov.

Giving him Notice of his having been chosen a Member

of the Imperial Academy of Sciences.

Memoirs of his Life. - Rules for Composition. - Congress.

- Parable against Persecution.

364

366

366

368

375

380

382

To Benjamin Vaughan. 3 June.

Relative to the Memoirs of his Life.

To Mrs. Jane Mecom. 3 August.

394

395

To George Washington. 16 September.

From George Washington to B. Franklin. 23 September. 396

To Benjamin Vaughan. 2 November.

397

384

386

387

391

392

393

393

401

405

To Samuel Moore. 5 November,

To Alexander Small. 5 November. .

Poor Laws. American Loyalists. French and English

Governments.

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To

To M. Le Roy. 13 November.

On the Affairs of France.

To David Hartley. 4 December.

Convulsions in France.

States.

To Mrs. Jane Mecom. 17 December.

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To Noah Webster. 26 December.

On the English Language.

Words in America.

-

-

1789.

Improper Use of certain

Universality of the French Lan-

guage. Improvements in Printing.

From John Paul Jones to B. Franklin. 27 December.

On his leaving the Employment of the Empress of Russia.

1790.

Great Britain and the United

-

-

To Ezra Stiles. 9 March. .

From Ezra Stiles to B. Franklin. 28 January.

Requesting a Portrait of Dr. Franklin før Yale College. -

Inquiry respecting his religious Sentiments.

—. 19 January.

Construction of the Treaty of Commerce between France

and the United States.

To Mrs. Jane Mecom. 24 March.

1765.

To Charles Thomson. 11 July.

Consents to have his Portrait taken. - Explains his Senti-

ments on religious Subjects.

SUPPLEMENT.

Proprietary Government in Philadelphia. - Stamp Act.

1766.

To Charles Thomson. 27 February.

Expected Repeal of the Stamp Act.

To Charles Thomson. 27 September.

Repeal of the Stamp Act.

406

407

409

410

411

412

419

420

421

422

425

429

431

432

To M. Le Roy. 31 January.

Authorship of the "Farmer's Letters.". - Commercial Res-

olutions in America. - Political Errors.

-

1775.

To Charles Thomson. 5 February.

-

1769.

-

Petition of the First Congress presented to the King and

Parliament.- Manner in which it was received. - Lord

Camden. - Lord Chatham's Speech and Plan of Concilia-

tion.

1784.

To Charles Thomson. 31 March.

Concerning the Ratification of the Treaty of Peace.

To Charles Thomson. 16 April.

Treaty of Peace. British Ministry. Public Funds.

French Alliance.-Treaties with Foreign Powers.

To Charles Thomson. 14 June.

To M. Dubourg.

Projects and Plans by Persons in Europe for the Consid-

eration of Congress. - King of Sweden.

1786.

To Charles Thomson. 18 June.

1787.

To Mrs. Jane Mecom. 20 September.

On the Nature of Sce Coal.

-

Respecting a Million of Livres in the Account of the Amer-

ican Banker in France.

1790.

To Thomas Jefferson. 8 April.

Attendance in the Convention. - Disapprobation of War.

Precautions for protecting Houses from Fire.

Concerning the Eastern Boundary of the United States.

433

435

439

440

441

443

444

446

447

INDEXES.

I. List of the Author's Writings, chronologically arranged

449

II. Letters written by Franklin to Individuals and Public Bodies 464

III. Letters addressed to Franklin by various Persons.

476

IV.

Miscellaneous Letters

481

485

V. General Index

CORRESPONDENCE,

PART THIRD;

COMPRISING

LETTERS PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL

FROM

THE BEGINNING OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

ΤΟ

THE END OF THE AUTHOR'S MISSION TO FRANCE.

1775-1785.

(CONTINUED.)