Benjamin Franklin's Humor

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169 NOTES Introduction 1. Bliven 12. 2. Franklin, Papers 7:246. 3. Abigail Adams 1:64. 4. Priestley 25:393. 5. Zall, ed., Wit and Wisdom 58. 6. Ibid., 43. 7. Ibid., 48. 8. Mazzei 215. 9. Balzac 2:115. 10. Zall, “Portrait” 53–65. 11. Zall, ed., Franklin on Franklin 80. 12. Ibid., 62. 13. Ibid., 165. 14. Ibid., 190. 15. Franklin, Papers 13:142. 16. Zall, ed., Franklin on Franklin 116. 17. Ibid., 243. 18. Ibid., 246. 19. Ibid., 254. 20. Franklin, Autobiography 172. 21. Franklin, Papers 22:85. 22. Ibid., 26:223. 23. Documentary History of Ratification, 13:214. 24. John Adams 1:663–64. 25. Zall, ed., Franklin on Franklin 279. 26. Franklin, Writings, ed. Smyth, 9:687. 27. Zall, ed., Franklin on Franklin 276. 28. Pennsylvania Gazette, 2 August 1738. 29. Zall, ed., Ben Franklin Laughing, 87. 30. Zall, ed., Jefferson on Jefferson 61. 31. Zall, ed., Ben Franklin Laughing, 140. 32. Zall, ed., Abe Lincoln Laughing 42. 33. Zall, ed., Franklin on Franklin 286. 170 Chapter 1 1. Jorgenson, “Sidelights” 217. 2. Lemay, “Benjamin Franklin” 205–6. 3. Tourtellot 337. 4. Excerpts are from the New-England Courant, 2 April–8 October 1722, which are reprinted in Franklin, Papers 1:8–45. 5. Zall, ed., Wit and Wisdom 47. 6. Defoe, Moll Flanders 58. 7. Addison and Steele 2:122n. 8. Lemay, Calendar 5. 9. Preface to “Horae Lyricae, 1706” in Watts 100. 10. Guardian (10 June 1713) 288–90. 11. Tourtellot 382. 12. Zall, ed., Wit and Wisdom 20–24; Mencken 266. 13. Franklin, Writings, ed. Lemay, 1326. 14. Lemay, “Benjamin Franklin” 205, 210. Chapter 2 1. Kobre 54. 2. Cook 62–70. 3. The Busy-Body series in Franklin, Writings, ed. Lemay, 95. 4. Pennsylvania Gazette, 13 March 1729. 5. March 4, 1729; Franklin, Writings, ed. Lemay, 110. 6. Addison and Steele 2:110. 7. Butterfield 3:33. 8. Facsimile of Yale University Library copy, in Franklin, Papers 1:111. 9. Addison and Steele 4:580. 10. Franklin, Writings, ed. Lemay, 1370. 11. Swift, Tale 173. 12. Ibid., 171. Chapter 3 1. Besides Poor Richard, the almanacs discussed are in the Huntington Library: American Almanac, accession number 12615; Poor Robin (London ), 336368; Poor Robin (Newport, R.I.), 152419; Saunder’s Apollo Anglicanus, 336368. 2. Miller 26. 3. Franklin, Complete Poor Richard Almanacks 1:ix. 4. Franklin, Writings, ed. Lemay, 1397. 5. Howell, Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660), originally entitled Paroimiographia (1659). Notes to Pages 11–48 171 6. Samples in parentheses are from Howell’s Tetraglotton (1560) with no regular pagination. 7. Swift, Predictions for the Year 1712, 5. 8. American Almanack (1734). 9. American Almanack (1735). 10. Sappenfield 134–35. 11. Blackwell 4–5. 12. Zall, ed., Franklin on Franklin 138. 13. Pencak 183. 14. “To the Reader,” American Almanack (1743), in Shipton and Mooney, eds. 15. Wolf 2780. Chapter 4 1. Franklin, Papers 4:199. 2. Thomas Penn to Richard Peters, June 1740, in Illick 194–95. 3. Franklin, Writings, ed. Lemay, 298. 4. Franklin, Papers 3:30–31. 5. Franklin, Writings, ed. Lemay, 302–3. 6. Hall 94–96. 7. Ibid., 100–101. 8. “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker,” in Lemay, ed., Oldest Revolutionary 107. 9. Franklin, Papers 7:341n. Chapter 5 1. Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae 1–2. 2. Franklin, Papers 8:152–53. 3. Selden 100–101. 4. Franklin, Papers 9:212–13. 5. Ibid., 9:259–60. 6. Potts 56–57. 7. Franklin, Papers 10:83. 8. Herodotus 217; Crane 33n–34n. 9. Jorgenson, “Benjamin Franklin and Rabelais” 538–40; Lemay, “Franklin in France” 127. 10. Public Advertiser (London), 22 May 1765; Crane 33–34. 11. Crane xvi. 12. Lopez, Mon Cher Papa 19. 13. Galton 54. 14. (London) Gazetteer, 14 January 1766. Notes to Pages 48–91 172 15. Thomas 250. 16. Pennsylvania Chronicle, 23 March 1767; Franklin, Papers 13:184. 17. Franklin, Papers 13:24–42; Franklin, Writings, ed. Lemay, 580. 18. Public Advertiser, 23 January 1766; Crane 56–57. 19. Franklin, Papers 14:255. 20. Franklin, Celebrated Mrs. Pilkington’s Jests 80–84. 21. Franklin, Papers 17:220–26. 22. Ibid., 17:239. 23. Public Advertiser, 2 January 1770; Crane 166–67. 24. Franklin, Papers 18:200–202. 25. Ibid., 19:301–2. 26. Zall, ed., Franklin on Franklin 255. Chapter 6 1. Franklin, Papers 20:457–58. 2. Bacon 6:444. 3. Franklin, Papers 20:391–99; Franklin, Writings, ed. Lemay...