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Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and forty, by HILLIARD GRAY, AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
ANDOVER:
PRINTED BY W. F. DRAPER
CONTENTS
OF
VOLUME TENTH.
CORRESPONDENCE.
PART THIRD;
COMPRISING LETTERS, PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL, FROM
THE BEGINNING OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION TO
THE END OF THE AUTHOR'S MISSION TO FRANCE.
1775-1785.
To Mrs. Mary Hewson. 7 September.
On the future Establishment of her Children.
Page
1
To David Hartley. 7 September.
To John Jay. 10 September.
56
5
6
Quotes a Letter from America containing false Reports.-
Appeals to Mr. Jay to refute them.
From John Jay to B. Franklin. 11 September.
8
Refutes the Charges contained in a Letter to Dr. Frank-
lin, respecting the Part taken by the latter in Regard to
the Fisheries.
To Josiah Quincy. 11 September.
9
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Treaty of Peace. Depreciating Currency. False
Charges of his Enemies.
From John Adams to B. Franklin. 13 September.
12
From Sir Joseph Banks to B. Franklin. 13 September.
Balloons.
To the President of Congress. 13 September, 1783.
Relations with Morocco.- Portugal. - English Ministers.
From David Hartley to B. Franklin. 24 September.
Concerning a Treaty of Commerce with England.
To the President of Congress. 27 September.
Enclosing a Copy of the Definitive Treaty.
15
18
19.
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21
23
25
From the Count de Bruhl to B. Franklin. 10 October.
From Samuel Cooper to B. Franklin. 16 October. .
Impost of Five per Cent agreed to by the Legislature of
Massachusetts.
To David Hartley. 16 October.
26
To David Hartley. 22 October.
27
To the President of Congress. 1 November.
Financial Difficulties of France. - Sweden, Denmark, Por-
tugal.
28
From Giacomo F. Crocco to B. Franklin.
25 November.
31
From Sir Joseph Banks to B. Franklin. 28 November..
Proposed Treaty with Morocco.
To Giacomo Francesco Crocco. 15 December.
To the President of Congress. 25 December.
American Commissioners.-Signing of the Definitive Trea-
ties. British Court. American Constitutions published
in the French Language.-Treaties with European Pow-
ers. -Paul Jones.
To Robert Morris. 25 December.
Difficulty of meeting Drafts on the public Account.-Sala-
ries of the American Ministers in Europe. - Contingent
Expenses.-Taxation. Nature of Property in Civil So-
ciety.-The Marquis de Lafayette.
From John Jay to B. Franklin. 26 December.
To Thomas Mifflin. 26 December.
Dr. Franklin requests of Congress to be recalled from
France.
43
47
48
58
52
53
55
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.
Order of the Cincinnati.
scending Honors.
Hereditary Nobility.
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.
De-
From Richard Price to B. Franklin. 6 April.
The Royal Society. - Political Affairs in England. — Dr.
Price's Design to write concerning the United States.
Cotton Mather.- Biographical Anecdotes.
To the President of Congress. 12 May.
Commerce with the British and French Colonies.
82
85
From Francis Hopkinson to B. Franklin. 24 May.
American Philosophical Society.- Defects in the usual
Methods of Teaching Languages. Balloons.
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From David Hartley to B. Franklin. 1 June.
Defects of Form in ratifying the Treaty.
To David Hartley. 2 June.
96
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.
To the President of Congress. 16 June..
100
Definitive Treaty ratified.—Jay and Laurens. The Mar-
quis de Lafayette.
102
104
105
107
109
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.
From Count de Campomanes to B. Franklin. 26 July..
Remarks on Dr. Franklin's Writings. His Discoveries. –
Laws in Spain. - Royal Academy of History.
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.
118
From Count de Mercy Argenteau to B. Franklin. 30 July. 119