FOOTNOTES:
[19] Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Letters, by John Bach McMaster, p. 137.
[20] Life of Benjamin Franklin, by James Parton, vol. i. p. 263.
[21] Works of Franklin, by Jared Sparks, vol. ii. p. 9.
[22] Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, pp. 1, 2.
[23] Charles Willson Peale’s copy of Martin’s Franklin, the original of which is owned by Mr. Henry Pratt McKean.
[24] Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Letters, by John Bach McMaster, p. 277.