September, 1898.

CONTENTS

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[I.]Early Years[1]
[II.]A Citizen of Philadelphia: Concernment in Public Affairs[17]
[III.]Representative of Pennsylvania in England: Return Home[59]
[IV.]Life in Philadelphia[86]
[V.]Second Mission to England: I.[100]
[VI.]Second Mission to England: II. [142]
[VII.]Second Mission to England: III. The Hutchinson Letters: The Privy Council Scene: Return Home[177]
[VIII.]Services in the States[204]
[IX.]Minister to France: I. Deane and Beaumarchais: Foreign Officers[220]
[X.]Minister to France: II. Prisoners: Trouble with Lee and Others[248]
[XI.]Minister to France: III. Treaty with France: More Quarrels[267]
[XII.]Financiering[304]
[XIII.]Habits of Life and of Business: an Adams Incident[337]
[XIV.]Peace Negotiations: Last Years in France[357]
[XV.]At Home: President of Pennsylvania: The Constitutional Convention: Death[403]
[Index][427]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Benjamin Franklin]

From the original by Jean Baptiste Greuze, in the Boston Public Library. It was painted for Benjamin Franklin as a gift to Richard Oswald, the English commissioner associated with him in the peace negotiations of 1782. Gardner Brewer of Boston bought the painting in 1872 and presented it to the Library.

Autograph from the Declaration of Independence.

The vignette of [Independence Hall] is after a drawing in the possession of the American Bank Note Co., Philadelphia.