From the original painting in the possession of the Historical Society of Penn a

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

AS A MAN OF LETTERS.

BY

JOHN BACH MCMASTER,
WHARTON SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA,

BOSTON:
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.