04369oam 22006494a 450 991080715420332120210108134242.01-58729-983-6(CKB)2670000000092729(EBL)843316(OCoLC)727944924(SSID)ssj0000522704(PQKBManifestationID)11340959(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000522704(PQKBWorkID)10538605(PQKB)11213609(MdBmJHUP)muse12492(MiAaPQ)EBC843316(EXLCZ)99267000000009272920101118d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFranklin in His Own Time A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates /edited by Kevin J. Hayes and Isabelle BourIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20111 online resource (241 p.)Writers in their own timeDescription based upon print version of record.1-58729-982-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-186) and index.Contents; Introduction; Chronology; Pehr Kalm, [Speaking about Natural History, 1748]; Daniel Fisher, [Extracts from the Diary, 1755]; House of Commons, The Examination of Doctor Benjamin Franklin (1767); Joseph Priestley, [Science, Religion, and Politics in London, 1769, 1795, 1802]; Josiah Quincy, Jr., [Franklin in London, 1774-1775]; John Adams, [Franklin as a Congressman and a Diplomat, 1775-1778]; Abigail Adams, [Franklin in Boston and Paris, 1775 and 1784]; Philip Gibbes, [Two Conversations with Benjamin Franklin, 1777-1778]; Arthur Lee, [Extracts from the Journal, 1777]William Greene, [Franklin at Passy, 1778]John Baynes, [Franklin at Passy, 1783]; Andrew Ellicott, [This Venerable Nestor of America, 1785]; Benjamin Rush, [The Wisdom and Experience of Mellow Old Age, 1785-1789, 1805, 1806]; Winthrop Sargent, [My Dinner with Franklin, 1786]; Manasseh Cutler, [A Visit to Franklin Court, 1787]; James Madison, [Franklin during the Constitutional Convention, 1787]; Mary Stevenson Hewson, "Closing Scenes of Dr. Franklin's Life: In a Letter from an Eye-Witness" (1790); John Jones, "Short Account of Dr. Franklin's Last Illness by His Attending Physician" (1790)Louis Lefebvre de La Roche, "On Franklin" (1800)Thomas Jefferson, [Anecdotes of Doctor Franklin, 1818 and 1821]; William Temple Franklin, [Anecdotes Relative to Dr. Franklin, 1818]; Robert Aspland, [A Conversation with Franklin's London Friends, 1821]; André Morellet, [Memories of Franklin, 1821]; Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, [A Short Account of Benjamin Franklin, 1825]; Roberts Vaux and a Canadian Numismatist, [The Sawdust Pudding Supper: Two Versions, 1835 and 1875]; Deborah Norris Logan, [Memoir of Dr. George Logan of Stenton, 1839]Robert Carr, "Personal Recollections of Benjamin Franklin" (1864)Permissions; Works Cited; IndexIn his time Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was the most famous American in the world. Even those personally unacquainted with the man knew him as the author of Poor Richard's Almanack, as a pioneer in the study of electricity and a major figure in the American Enlightenment, as the creator of such life-changing innovations as the lightning rod and America's first circulating library, and as a leader of the American Revolution. His friends also knew him as a brilliant conversationalist, a great wit, an intellectual filled with curiosity, and most of all a master aneWriters in Their Own TimePrintersUnited StatesBiographyInventorsUnited StatesBiographyScientistsUnited StatesBiographyStatesmenUnited StatesBiographyElectronic books. PrintersInventorsScientistsStatesmen973.3092973.3092Bour Isabelle1106906Hayes Kevin J859233MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910807154203321Franklin in His Own Time4090467UNINA