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To the President of Congress. 26 December, 1783. .

Recommending Mr. Hodgson as Consul in London.

To Mrs. Mary Hewson. 26 December.

1784.

Change in Administration. Hereditary Officers of State.

From Charles Thomson to B. Franklin. 15 January.

Treaty of Peace ratified by Congress.

To Mrs. Sarah Bache. 26 January.

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Order of the Cincinnati. Hereditary Nobility. De-

scending Honors.

From William Strahan to B. Franklin. 1 February.

Urging Dr. Franklin to visit England.

To Henry Laurens. 12 February.

Remarks on the British Government.

To William Strahan. 16 February..

Political Disorders in England.

To Benjamin Vaughan. March.

Reflections on the American Treaty with England.

From David Hartley to B. Franklin. 2 March.

To Charles Thomson. 9 March.

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From Richard Price to B. Franklin. 6 April.

To John Walter. 17 April.

To Benjamin Webb. 22 April.

To Samuel Mather. 12 May.

The Royal Society. - Political Affairs in England. — Dr.

Price's Design to write concerning the United States.

On the Logographic Method of Printing.

A new Method of repaying Money lent.

Cotton Mather. Biographical Anecdotes.

To the President of Congress. 12 May.

Commerce with the British and French Colonies.

To Henry Laurens. 13 May, 1784.

To Charles Thomson. 13 May.

Ratification of the Definitive Treaty.

To Mr. and Mrs. Jay. 13 May.

From Francis Hopkinson to B. Franklin. 24 May.

American Philosophical Society. Defects in the usual

Methods of Teaching Languages.

From David Hartley to B. Franklin.

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Balloons.

1 June.

Defects of Form in ratifying the Treaty.

To David Hartley. 2 June.

Answer to Mr. Hartley's Objections to the Form of the

Ratification of the Treaty.

Franklin's Writings. - Power of an Individual to do Good.

-Two erroneous Opinions injurious to national Felicity.—

Hereditary Descents.

Definitive Treaty ratified. Jay and Laurens. - The Mar-
quis de Lafayette.

From Thomas Jefferson to B. Franklin.

19 June.

From William Carmichael to B. Franklin. 9 July. .

From Richard Price to B. Franklin. 12 July.

Dr. Price's Pamphlet on the American Revolution. - Let-

ter from M. Turgot.

To Thomas Percival. 17 July.

Remarks on Duelling.

To Messrs. Weems and Gant. 18 July.

Ordination of American Clergymen of the Episcopal Church.

To Benjamin Vaughan. 26 July.

Restraints on Commerce.-Cook's Voyages. - Dr. Price's

Pamphlet.- Luxury.

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From Count de Campomanes to B. Franklin. 26 July. .

Remarks on Dr. Franklin's Writings. — His Discoveries. -

Laws in Spain. - Royal Academy of History.

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From Benjamin Harrison to B. Franklin. 27 July.

Requesting him to engage an Artist for executing a Statue

of General Washington.

To Count de Mercy Argenteau. 30 July.

From Count de Mercy Argenteau to B. Franklin. 30 July. 119

To Messrs. Sears and Smith. 4 August, 1784.

Duty on Slaves imported into the French Islands.

To Mrs. Mary Hewson. 15 August.

Invites her to come to Paris.

To Richard Price. 16 August..

Balloons.- English Constitution.-State of America.

On receiving a Copy of Cook's Voyages by Order of the

King.

To William Strahan. 19 August.

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Invites him to Passy. - Annihilation of profitable Places.-

American Congress and British Parliament. The late

War. Emigration.

Tract on the Principles of Trade. - Foundling Hospital. -

Double Spectacles.

To a Friend in England. 21 August.

General Melville. - Profession of Faith.

tament.

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- The Old Tes-

From James McHenry to B. Franklin. 24 August.

The Marquis de Lafayette. The Adjournment of Con-

gress, and Dissolution of the Committee of the States.

From Count de Vergennes to B. Franklin. 27 August..

To Count de Vergennes. 3 September.

To Benjamin Vaughan. 7 September.

Introducing Count Mirabeau.

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From Count de Vergennes to B. Franklin. 9 September.

From William Carmichael to B. Franklin. 25 September.

Appointment of M. Gardoqui as Minister from Spain to the

United States. Count de Galvez.

From Count de Mercy Argenteau to B. Franklin. 28 Sept.

From Robert Morris to B. Franklin. 30 September.

Settlement of the Public Accounts.- Contingent Fund.

To Charles Thomson. 16 October. .

From Richard Price to B. Franklin. 21 October.

To Charles Thomson. 11 November, 1784..

From George Whatley to B. Franklin. 15 November.

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Principles of Trade. Foundling Hospitals. Spectacles.

Powers of Congress.- Toleration.

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To Thomas Jefferson. 23 November.

From John Jay to B. Franklin. 13 December.

The Marquis de Lafayette.-Congress.

1785.

To David Hartley. 3 January. .

To John Jay. 8 February.

To the President of Congress. 8 February.

To Richard Price. 18 March

Purchase of Books for the Town of Franklin.

To William Carmichael. 22 March.

Invitation to accompany him to America. - Idle Stories

about that Country. Emperor of Germany.

To the President of Congress. 12 April.

To Benjamin Vaughan. 21 April.

Manufactures. Books. Loose Printing.

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To John Ingenhousz. 29 April.

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From M. de Rayneval to B. Franklin. 8 May.

To John Jay. 10 May.

To Charles Thomson. 10 May.

To Jonathan Williams. 19 May.

Assures him of the

To George Whatley. 19 May. .

From Count de Vergennes to B. Franklin. 22 May.

Regrets Dr. Franklin's Departure.

Esteem of the King.

To George Whatley. 23 May..

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Moral and Philosophical Reflections. Foundling Hospital

at Paris. '— Cincinnati. — American Confederation.— Anec-

dote of three Greenlanders.— Double Spectacles.

From Thomas Percival to B. Franklin. 23 May.

Perceptive Power of Vegetables.

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Bishop Watson's Col-

lection of Tracts. - Christian Charity.

From Richard Price to B. Franklin. 3 June, 1785.

Library for the Town of Franklin.

From Claudius Crigan to B. Franklin. 7 June

To Thomas Barclay. 19 June.

Relative to his Charges for Salary as Minister Plenipo-

tentiary.

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Dissuading him from attempting to cross to England in a

Balloon.

From Francis Maseres to B. Franklin. 20 June.

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Policy of restoring the confiscated Estates to the Loyalists.

National Debt.

To Francis Maseres. 26 June.

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Results of the American Contest. State of America.

The Loyalists. Confiscation of Estates.

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From Richard Jackson to B. Franklin. 27 June.

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State of Affairs produced by the Peace. Great Britain.

France. East Indies.

From Mathon de la Cour to B. Franklin. 30 June.

From Thomas Pownall to B. Franklin. 3 July.

Political Remarks. - England. — America.

To Mrs. Mary Hewson. 4 July.

Leaves Passy.—Travels to Havre in the King's Litter.

Practicability and Expediency of establishing a Bishop in

America.

To Claudius Crigan 5 July

Froin M. de Castries to B. Franklin. 10 July.

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