FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE COURT OF FRANCE,

AND FOR THE TREATY OF PEACE AND INDEPENDENCE

WITH ŚREAT BRITAIN, &c.
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, TO A LATE PERIOD,

AND CONTINUED TO THE TIME OF HIS DEATH

BY HIS GRANDSON, .

WILLIAM TEMPLE FRANKLIN.

NOW FIRST PUBLISHED

FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT,

COMPRISING

THE PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE & PUBLIC NEGOTIATIONS

OP

DR. FRANKLIN:

TOGETHER WITH THE WHOLE OF HIS

POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, & MISCELLANEOUS WORKS.

VOL. I.

PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED BY T. S. MANNING.

LASTEBX DISTNICT OP PENNSYLFAXIA, TO WIT

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the tenth day of July, is
the forty third year of the independence of the Voited States of!
America, A.D. 1818, WILLIAM DUANE, or the said district
hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right.
wher of' he claims as joint proprietor, with WILLIAM TEM
PLE FRANKLIN, Esq. Legatee, in the words following, to
wit; " Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Frank
lin, L. L. D. & F. R. S. Minister Plenipotentiary from the
United States of North America, at the court of France, and

for the treaty of peace and independence, &c. with Great Britain. Written by himself to a late period, and continued to the time of his death, by his grandson, William Temple Franklia. Now first published, from the original manuscript, comprising the Private Correspondence and Public Negociations of Dr. Franklin : together with the whole of his Political, Philosophical, and Miscellaneous Works."

In conformity to an Act or the Congress of the United States, entituled “ Ap Act for the encouragemeut of learning, by securing the copies of maps eharts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copiés, during the times therein mentioned.” And also to the Act entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act catitled " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the tmes therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designin, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.”

D. CALDWELL,
Clerk of the Eastern District of Pernsylvanu

Replaces Banculf Coly

. Oct. 7. 1910.

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