Benjamin Franklin, an American Man of Letters

Abbé Morellet Addison almanac American aptronymous art of virtue Autobiographical Writings Autobiography bagatelles Benjamin Franklin Boston Bradford Collection Brillon to Franklin Busy-Body Cabanis Carl Van Doren Cato's Letters century character colonial correspondence Cotton Mather Crane Dogood early eighteenth-century England English expression familiar letters father France Franklin Papers Franklin to Brillon Franklin to Polly French friendship give Gout happy Hewson Ibid James Franklin John Jonathan Shipley learned literary live London manner Mme Brillon Mme Helvétius moral Morellet never New-England Courant original manuscript Paris Passy Pennsylvania Gazette periodical essay Philadelphia philomath Polly to Franklin Poor Richard Poor Richard's Almanack printed printer Proc prose Putnam's reader reprinted in Labaree rhetorical sentence Sept Smyth style Swift Temple Franklin version Text thou thought tion Titan Leeds Veillard VIII wife William William Temple Franklin words written XLIII young