OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INCLUDING HIS PRIVATE AS WELL AS HIS OFFICIAL AND SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE, AND PRINTED, WITH MANY OTHERS NOT INCLUDED IN ANY FORMER COLLECTION ALSO THE UNMUTILATED AND CORRECT VERSION OF HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY COMPILED AND EDITED BY JOHN BIGELOW "Strange that Ulysses does a thousand things so well."-ILIAD, B. II, 335 VOL. VII. NEW YORK AND LONDON G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS The Knickerbocker Press DCCCXLVII.-To W. Strahan, January 24th, DCCCXLVIII.-To Charles W. F. Dumas, Jan- America will not treat for a peace without her allies-Franklin offers to pay for all the tea destroyed in Boston harbor-British barbarities in America -Proposal to make a school-book of them with illustrations. DCCCLI.-To Dr. Priestley, February 8th, True science and its progress-Re- gret that moral science was not making be wolves-Inconveniences incident to V 2 Seizure of prizes in Norway-Jones and Landais-Importance of appointing Prospects of England. Malesherbes-Spain-Great states. Refusing his request to be restored to the command of the Alliance-Gives his PAGE 14 |