The reviewer is careful not to quote from this letter or even to say where it may be found, and the inference the ordinary reader would draw from the way it is paraded is that it contains some very positive denial that Mrs. Foxcroft was Franklin’s daughter. But when it is examined, it is found to be a business letter like the others, referring to the lady in question as “Mrs. Foxcroft” instead of as “my daughter,” a perfectly natural way of referring to her and entirely consistent with the other letters. We give the letter in full. It is in the American Philosophical Society Collection, vol. xlv., No. 94: LONDON Sept. 7, 1774. MR. FOXCROFT, Dear Friend-- Mr. Todd called to see me yesterday. I perceive there is good deal of uneasiness at the office concerning the Delay of the Accounts. He sent me in the Evening to read and return to him a Letter he had written to you for the Mail. Friendship requires me to urge earnestly your Attention to the contents, if you value the Continuance of your Appointment; for these are times of uncertainty, and I think it not unlikely that there is some Person in view ready to step into your Shoes, if a tolerable reason could be given for dismissing you. Mr. Todd is undoubtedly your Friend. But everything is not always done as he would have it This to yourself; and I confide that you will take it as I mean it for your Good. Several Packets are arrived since I have had a Line from you. But I had the pleasure of seeing by yours to Mr. Todd that you and Mrs. Foxcroft with your little Girl are all in good Health which I pray may continue. I am ever my dear old friend Yours most affectionately B. FRANKLIN. Index Academy established by Franklin, 74-5. ---- of Madame Helvetius, 330. ADAMS, John, 295, 297, 303-5; criticisms of Franklin, 306-12; his difficulties with Vergennes, 321; opposed to France, 322-3, 341-6; Franklin criticises, 345-6. ----, Mrs. John, 328-9. Advertising, Franklin's methods of, 141-2. Air-baths, 25-6. Albany Conference, 201, 352-3. ALLEN, Chief-Justice, 122. Alliance, treaty of, 299-303. Almanac, Franklin's, 143-52. American Philosophical Society, 196. Amusements as a youth, 18, 20. Ancestors of Franklin, 42, 132. Aristocracy, colonial, opposed to Franklin, 124. Arithmetic, Franklin learns, 51. "Armonica," the, 185. Asaph, St., the Bishop of, 227, 348; his daughters, 227-8. Asbestos purse, the, 63. Assembly, Franklin clerk of, 159; elected a member of, 199. "Associators," the, 199. AUSTIN, Jonathan, 301. Autobiography, Franklin's, 158. BACHE, Sarah, 119, 265. BAKER, Polly, 139. Ballads by Franklin, 45. BANCROFT, Dr. Edward, 288. BARTRAM, John, 192. BEAUMARCHAIS, 279-83. Black Prince, the, 315.