Franklin in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates

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[183] Permissions John Adams to Abigail Adams, 23 July 1775, is reprinted by permission of the publisher from The Adams Papers: Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 1: December 1761–May 1776, edited by L. H. Butterfield, pp. 252–253, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, copyright© 1963 by the Massachusetts Historical Society. [Franklin as a Congressman and a Diplomat, 1775–1776] by John Adams is reprinted by permission of the publisher from The Adams Papers: Diary and Autobiography of John Adams: Volume 3—Diary 1782–1804, Autobiography through 1776, edited by L. H. Butterfield, Leonard C. Faber, and Wendell D. Garrett, pp. 41–420, 422, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, copyright © 1961 by the Massachusetts Historical Society. [Franklin as a Congressman and a Diplomat, 1777–1778] by John Adams is reprinted by permission of the publisher from The Adams Papers: Diary and Autobiography of John Adams: Volume 4—Autobiography 1777–1780, edited by L. H. Butterfield, Leonard C. Faber, and Wendell D. Garrett, pp. 41–44, 46–48, 56–57, 58, 59–62, 63–64, 67–69, 80–81, 92, 104, 105, 117, 143–144, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, copyright© 1961 by the Massachusetts Historical Society. Abigail Adams to John Adams, 5 November 1775, is reprinted by permission of the publisher from The Adams Papers: Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 1: December 1761–May 1776, edited by L. H. Butterfield, pp. 320–321, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, copyright© 1963 by the Massachusetts Historical Society. Abigail Adams to Lucy Cranch, 5 September 1784, and Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts, 8 September 1784, are reprinted by permission of the publisher from The Adams Papers: Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 5: October 1782–November 1784, edited by Richard Alan Ryerson, pp. 436–438, 459, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, copyright© 1993 by the Massachusetts Historical Society. franklin in his own time [184] [Two Conversations with Benjamin Franklin, 1777–1778] by Philip Gibbes is taken from The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Leonard W. Labaree, et al., 39 vols. to date (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959–), 23: 281–285; 25: 419–423. Reprinted with permission of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. [Franklin during the Constitutional Convention, 1787] by James Madison is taken from Elizabeth Fleet, “Madison’s ‘Detached Memoranda,’” William and Mary Quarterly, 3 (1946): 536–539. Reprinted with permission of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. “On Franklin,” by Louis Lefebvre de La Roche is translated from the French in Gilbert Chinard, “Recollections of Benjamin Franklin,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 94 (1950): 218–221. Reprinted with permission of the American Philosophical Society. ...