The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (145 page)

426–27 “I am assured … totally lost”: to Galloway, Mar. 21, 1770.

428 “Being born”: to “Dear Sir,” Nov. 28, 1768.

428 “I am much obliged”: from Galloway, June 21, 1770.

429 “our friends”: from Thomas Cushing et al., July 13, 1770.

429 “entirely relying”:
PBF,
17:258.

429 “greatly confided”: from Cushing, Nov. 6, 1770.

429 “I have enemies”: to Despencer, July 26, 1770.

430 “In this”: to Jane Mecom, Dec. 30, 1770.

430 “I do not think”: to Galloway, Jan. 9, 1768.

430 “His inclinations”: to Galloway, July 2, 1768.

431–33 “I was pleased … farther trouble”: notes of interview, Jan. 16, 1771.

433–34 “I have since … variance with me”: to Cooper, Feb. 5, 1771.

434–35 “are justly tenacious”: from Cushing et al., Dec. 17, 1770.

435–36 “The doctrine … public ministers”: to Cushing, Feb. 5, 1771.

436–37 “It is looked on … among us”: to Cushing, June 10, 1771.

437–38 “I have read”: Lee to Adams, June 10, 1771, in Richard Henry Lee,
Life of Arthur Lee
(Boston, 1829), 1:215ff.

438 “It will make”: from Cooper, Aug. 25, 1771.

438 “I imagine”: to Galloway, Feb. 6, 1772.

438–39 “It appeared”: Jonathan Williams’s journal,
PBF,
18:114–16.

439 “Hadn’t you better”: to Anna Mordaunt Shipley, Aug. 13, 1771.

440 “Can the farmers”:
PBF,
18:222–23.

440 “Ireland itself”: to Cushing, Jan. 13, 1772.

441 “I thought often”: to Joshua Babcock, Jan. 13, 1772.

441 “I esteemed it”: to Cushing, Jan. 13, 1772.

442 “They are all”: to Galloway, Feb. 6, 1772.

442 “in an elegant” Henry Marchant’s journal, Oct. 30–Nov. 2, 1771, APS.

442 “The good wishes”: from Hume, Feb. 7, 1772.

442 “He was extremely”: to WF, Jan. 30, 1772.

20. TO KICK A LITTLE: 1772–73

444
“mon cher”:
from Condorcet, Dec. 2, 1773.

445 “To you”: from Beccaria, May 20, 1771.

445 “modern Prometheus”: “Fortgesetzte Betrachtung der seit einiger Zeit wahrgenommenen Erderschütterungen” (1756) in
Kants Werke
(Berlin, 1968), 1:472.

445 “A place”: to Royal Academy of Sciences, Nov. 16, 1772, APS.

445
“avec une sorte”:
from Barbeu-Dubourg, Dec. 29, 1773.

445 “Learned and ingenious”: to WF, Aug. 19, 1772.

446 “Travelling”: to Rush, July 14, 1773.

446 “of the greatest”: to WF, Aug. 19, 1772.

447–49 “I fetched … determine this”: to William Brownrigg, Nov. 7, 1773.

449 “There seems”: from Cooper, Jan. 1, 1771.

449–50 “When I had been”: to WF, Aug. 19, 1772.

450–51 “At length”: to WF, Aug. 17, 1772.

451 “I hope”: to Cushing, Nov. 4, 1772.

451 “Upon the whole”: to Cushing, Dec. 2, 1772.

452 “There has lately”: to Cushing, Dec. 2, 1772.

453 “There must be”: Hutchinson to Whately, Jan. 20, 1769,
PBF,
20:549–50.

453 “I have engaged”: to Cushing, Dec. 2, 1772.

455 “I can now”: Bache to DF, Dec. 3, 1771,
PBF,
18:257.

455 “His behaviour”: to DF, Jan. 28, 1772.

455 “I advised”: to Sarah Franklin Bache, Jan. 29, 1772.

456 “In return”: to DF, Feb. 2, 1773.

456 “All who have seen”: to Jane Mecom, Jan. 13, 1772.

456 “He improves”: to WF, Jan. 30, 1772.

456 “She is nimble-footed”: to DF, Dec. 1, 1772.

457 “I still feel”: to DF, Jan. 6, 1773.

457 “I cannot”: to Joseph Priestley, Sept. 19, 1772.

458 “Our great security”: to Cushing, Jan. 5, 1773.

459 “the sentiments”: from Cushing, Mar. 24, 1773.

459 “They have had”: from Cooper, June 14, 1773.

460 “I have the pleasure”: to Dartmouth, Aug. 21, 1773.

460
“for the Better”: Public Advertiser,
Sept. 22, 1773, PBF.

461 “I was down”: to WF, Oct. 6, 1773.

461 “Rules by Which”:
Public Advertiser,
Sept. 11, 1773, PBF.

463 “I had used”: to Mecom, Nov. 1, 1773.

21. THE COCKPIT: 1774–75

466 “I am glad”: to Cushing, July 25, 1773.

466 “totally ignorant”: to the
London Chronicle,
Dec. 25, 1773.

468–69 “The address …Three weeks”: Preliminary hearing before the Privy Council, Jan. 11, 1774,
PBF.

470 “bull-baiting”: extract of letter, Feb. 19, 1774.

471 “unmannered railer … humanity”:
PBF,
21:40n.

471 “furious Philippic”:
The Correspondence of Edmund Burke,
ed. George H. Guttridge (Chicago, 1960), 2:518, 524.

471–74 “the first mover … a successor”: Alexander Wedderburn’s speech before the Privy Council, Jan. 29, 1774, PBF.

474–75 “The Doctor”: Bancroft in
Memoirs
1:358.

475 “for the seditious”: report of Privy Council committee, Jan. 29, 1774.

475 “I am very angry”: to Cushing, Feb. 15, 1774.

476 “This line”: to WF, Feb. 2, 1774.

476 “As things are”: to Bache, Feb. 17, 1774.

476 “They may expect”: to WF, Feb. 18, 1774.

477 “You and I”: to Jane Mecom, Feb. 17, 1774.

477 “I am too much”: to Foxcroft, Feb. 18, 1774.

477 “The admirers”: to the
Public Advertiser,
Feb. 16, 1774.

478 “totally departed”:
Boston Gazette,
Apr. 25, 1774,
PBF,
21:79–83.

479 “He says”: Stanley Ayling,
George the Third,
243.

479 “We are not entering”: Bernard Donoughue,
British Politics and the American Revolution
(London, 1964), 77.

479 “If they deny”: Benjamin Woods Labaree,
The Boston Tea Party
(Boston, 1979), 185.

480 “hearty affirmative”:
The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to 1803,
ed. T. C. Hansard (London, 1813), 17:1169.

480 “hostile invasion”: Robert Middlekauff,
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789
(New York, 1982), 233.

481 “this old snake … mischievous enemies”: Catherine Drinker Bowen,
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin
(Boston, 1974), 241.

481 “You know”: to Jan Ingenhousz, Mar. 18, 1774.

482 “Dr. Franklin”: Priestley in
Memoirs,
1:359–60.

482 “I hope”:
The Letters of David Hume,
ed. J. Y. T. Greig (Oxford, UK, 1932), 2:286–88.

483 “I think”:
Letters of Eminent Persons Addressed to David Hume,
ed. J. E. Burton (Bristol, 1989), 270–72.

483 “most bitter”:
The Last Journals of Horace Walpole,
ed. J. Doran and A. Francis Steuart (London, 1910; rpt. New York, 1973), 1:284–85.

484 “A great empire”: Hansard,
Parliamentary History of England,
18:536.

484 “Your popularity”: from WF, May 3, 1774.

484 “Such horrid”: PG, May 4, 1774, PBF.

484 “I rejoice”: to Cushing, Sept. 15, 1774.

485 “If you should ever”: to Jonathan Williams Sr., Sept. 28, 1774.

485 “I am in”: to Cushing, Oct. 6, 1774.

485 “My situation”: to Joseph Galloway, Oct. 12, 1774.

486–89 “What is to be done … tea &c.”: Franklin journal, Mar. 22, 1775.

490 “I, the underwritten”: draft to Dartmouth, Mar. 16, 1775.

490 “He looked … national affront”: Franklin journal, Mar. 22, 1775.

490 “dangerous consequences”: from Thomas Walpole, Mar. 16, 1775.

22. REBEL: 1775–76

492 “Her death”: from WF, Dec. 24, 1774.

493 “a valuable”: to Joseph Priestley, May 16, 1775.

493 “This motion”: Journal entry for Apr. 5, 1775.

494 “Yesterday evening”: Broadside, May 8, 1775, PBF.

494 “The die”: Stanley Ayling,
George the Third,
247–48.

494 “It will surely”: Robert Middlekauff,
The Glorious Cause,
266.

495 “Will you let”:
ibid.,
271.

496 “I believe”: from Jane Mecom, May 14, 1775.

497 “a tolerable speaker … glorious cause”: James Thomas Flexner,
George Washington: The Forge of Experience
(Boston, 1965), 324–25, 332, 334, 341.

498 “A frenzy”:
Papers of Jefferson,
1:165.

499 “The youngest boy”: to Jane Mecom, June 17, 1775.

499 “I have but … conspicuous”:
Papers of Madison,
1:149–52.

499 “a pusillanimity”: Flexner,
Washington,
1:330.

499–500 “Hath any thing … our cause”:
Papers of Madison,
1:158–60.

500 “a disposition”: Adams to Abigail Adams, July 23, 1775,
Adams Papers.

500 “which the youngest”: to Jonathan Shipley, May 15, 1775.

500 “But, as Britain”: to Humphry Marshall, May 23, 1775.

500 “She has begun”: to Priestley, July 7, 1775.

500 “All Europe … madness”: to Shipley, July 7, 1775.

501 “Mr. Strahan”: to Strahan [unsent], July 5, 1775.

501 “Words and arguments”: to Strahan, July 7, 1775 [quoted in letter from Strahan, Sept. 6, 1775].

501 “It has been”: to Priestley, July 7, 1775.

501 “Articles of Confederation”: July 21, 1775, PBF.

504–5 “ímport all … regularly sent”: minutes of conference with Washington et al., Oct. 18–24, 1775.

505 “Here is a fine”: to Bache, Oct. 19, 1775.