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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

AS A MAN OF LETTERS.

BY

JOHN BACH MCMASTER,

WHARTON SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.
New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.

1887.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge:

Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

PREFATORY NOTE.

My thanks are due to Dr. Samuel Green, of the Massachusetts Historical Society; to Mr. Theodore Dwight, of the Library of the Department of State at Washington; to Mr. Hildeburn, of the Philadelphia Athenæum ; and especially to Mr. Lindsay Swift, of the Boston Public Library, and Mr. F. D. Stone, of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, for the help so kindly given me when gathering the material for this Life of Franklin.

JOHN BACH MCMASTER.

PHILADELPHIA,

October, 1887.

Birth and early training. The newspapers and literature

of New England. The Dogood Papers. The departure

of Franklin from Boston

CHAPTER II.

1723-1729.

Franklin reaches Philadelphia; is employed by Keimer;

goes to London; writes a pamphlet, "Liberty and

Necessity"; comes back to Philadelphia; opens a

printing office; writes "The Busybody," and a pam-

phlet on "Paper Money"

CHAPTER IIL

1729-1748.

1-35

36-64

Buys Keimer's "Universal Instructor in all the Arts and

Sciences," and establishes the "Pennsylvania Gazette";

notable contributions; his "Parables" and "Biblical

Paraphrases"

65-95

CHAPTER IV.

1732-1748.

Publishes "Poor Richard"; Father Abraham's Speech;

quarrels with Bradford; publishes the General Maga-

zine

96-135