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Franklin, Benjamin
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Ford, W. C. "Franklin and Chatham," _Independent_, LX, 94-7 (Jan. 11,
1906).
Ford, W. C. "Franklin's New England Courant," _Proceedings of the
Massachusetts Historical Society_, LVII, 336-53 (April, 1924).
Ford, W. C. "One of Franklin's Friendships. From Hitherto Unpublished
Correspondence between Madame de Brillon and Benjamin Franklin,
1776-1789," _Harper's Magazine_, CXIII, 626-33 (Sept., 1906).
Foster, J. W. "Franklin as a Diplomat," _Independent_, LX, 84-9 (Jan.
11, 1906).
Fox, R. H. _Dr. John Fothergill and His Friends; Chapters in Eighteenth
Century Life._ London: 1919. (Franklin and Fothergill, "lovers of
nature and keen students of physical science," met in 1757. See also
J. C. Lettsom, _Memoirs of John Fothergill_, 4th ed., London: 1786.)
Garrison, F. W. "Franklin and the Physiocrats," _Freeman_, VIII, 154-6
(Oct. 24, 1923). (Transcended by Carey's chapter in _Franklin's
Economic Views_, but has quotation from Dupont de Nemours [1769]: "Who
does not know that the English have today their Benjamin Franklin, who
has adopted the principles and the doctrines of our French
economists?")
Goggio, E. "Benjamin Franklin and Italy," _Romanic Review_, XIX, 302-8
(Oct., 1928). (Largely through the efforts of G. Beccaria, "Benjamin
Franklin was one of the first Americans to gain eminence and
popularity among the people of Italy.")
Goode, G. B. "The Literary Labors of Benjamin Franklin," _Proceedings of
the American Philosophical Society_, XXVIII, 177-97 (1890).
Grandgent, C. H. "Benjamin Franklin the Reformer," in _Prunes and
Prisms, with Other Odds and Ends_. Cambridge, Mass.: 1928, pp. 86-97.
("The principles advocated in his unfinished exposition [on spelling
reform] are those which phoneticians now advocate.")
Greene, S. A. "The Story of a Famous Book," _Atlantic Monthly_, XXVII,
207-12 (Feb., 1871). (A kind of _précis_ of Bigelow's Introduction to
_Autobiography_.)
Griswold, A. W. "Three Puritans on Prosperity," _New England Quarterly_,
VII, 475-93 (Sept., 1934). (Cotton Mather, Timothy Dwight, and
Franklin. One wonders by what right Franklin is dubbed the "soul of
Puritanism.")
Guedalla, Philip. "Dr. Franklin," in _Fathers of the Revolution_. New
York: 1926, pp. 215-34. (Chatty popular review of "the first
high-priest of the religion of efficiency.")
Guillois, Antoine. _Le salon de Madame Helvétius._ Paris: 1894.
Gummere, R. M. "Socrates at the Printing Press. Benjamin Franklin and
the Classics," _Classical Weekly_, XXVI, 57-9 (Dec. 5, 1932). (Survey
of his references to the classics, with occasional estimates of impact
on his mind.)
Hale, E. E. "Ben Franklin's Ballads," _New England Magazine_, N. S.
XVIII, 505-7 (1898). (Thinks "The Downfall of Piracy," found in
Ashton's _Real Sea-Songs_, is "one of the two lost ballads" Franklin
mentions in _Autobiography_.)
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