The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (148 page)

639 “Justice”: to Vaughan, Mar. 14, 1785, Smyth.

640 “I think it”: Bigelow, 10:299–300.

641 “I went home”: “To the Authors of the Journal of Paris,” Smyth 9:183–89.

28. HOME: 1785–86

644 “A few”: Smyth, 8:650–51.

644 “The name”: to Francis Maseres, June 26, 1785, Smyth.

645 “revive that affectionate”: Sheila Skemp,
William Franklin,
269.

645 “Dear Son”: to WF, Aug. 16, 1784, Smyth.

645 “Let us now”: to Shipley, Mar. 17, 1783, Smyth.

645–46 “Nothing has”: to WF, Aug. 16, 1784, Smyth.

646 “You are permitted”: from John Jay, Mar. 8, 1785, LC.

647 “They press me”: to Sally and Richard Baches, May 10, 1785, Smyth.

647 “This minister”: Vergennes to Marbois, May 10, 1785, Giunta.

647 “I think”: to Ferdinand Grand, Mar. 5, 1786, Smyth.

647 “When he left”: James Parton,
Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
(Boston, 1884), 2:531.

647 “who walk very easy”: to Jonathan Shipley, undated, Yale.

647 “I have perused”: Journal of journey from Paris to Philadelphia, Bigelow 11:191.

648 “My heart”: Lopez,
Mon Cher Papa,
299–301.

648 “I cannot … love me some”:
ibid.,
299–300.

649 “Had I been”: from Charles de Castries, July 10, 1785, Bigelow.

649 “I feel”: Lopez,
Mon Cher Papa,
301.

649 “I went”: BF journal, Bigelow, 11:194–95.

649 “I trust”: to WF, Aug. 16, 1784, Smyth.

650 “my fate”: Skemp,
William Franklin,
271.

650 “The captain”: BF journal, Bigelow, 11:196.

650 “We all left”: from Catherine Shipley, Aug. 2, 1785, Bigalow.

651 “the thermometer”: to David Le Roy, Aug. 1785, Smyth.

652 “In traveling”: to Jan Ingenhousz, Aug. 28, 1785, Smyth.

652 “With the flood”: BF journal, Bigelow, 11:196–97.

653 “generally agreed”: Harry M. Tinkcom, “The Revolutionary City, 1765–1783,” in
Philadelphia,
ed. Russell Weigley, 154.

655 “The ease”: to Paine, Sept. 27, 1785, Smyth.

655 “The people”: to Edward Newenham, Oct. 3, 1785, LC.

655 “Old as I am”: to Williams, Feb. 16, 1786, Smyth.

655 “I apprehend”: to Paine, Sept. 27, 1785, Smyth.

655 “I am now so well”: to the John and Sarah Jay, Sept. 21, 1785, Smyth.

655 “The stone”: to Daniel Roberdeau, Mar. 25, 1786, Smyth.

656 “I am now”: to the Jays, Sept. 21, 1765, Smyth.

656 “They are”: to Shipley, Feb. 24, 1786, Smyth.

657 “He ne’er cared”: to Whately, May 23, 1785, Smyth.

658 “Though your reasonings”: to (Paine?), July 3, 1786, Smyth.

658 “I am encouraged”: Webster to Washington, Mar. 31, 1786,
Papers of Washington.

659 “I wonder”: to Grand, July 11, 1786, Smyth.

659 “I conjecture”: to Thomson, Jan. 25, 1787, Smyth.

660 “The Assembly”: to d’Estaing, Apr. 15, 1787, Smyth.

660 “My own estate”: to Grand, Jan. 29, 1786, Smyth.

660 “I propose”: to Jane Mecom, Sept. 21, 1786, Smyth.

661 “an old man’s amusement”: to Grand, Apr. 22, 1787, Smyth.

661 “The affairs”: to Veillard, Apr. 15, 1787, Smyth.

661 “He appeared”:
Letters of Rush,
1:389–90.

662 “The accumulation”: Tinkcom, “Revolutionary City,” 159.

662 “It is expected”:
Letters of Rush,
1:409.

663 “The conductor”: to Landriani, Oct. 14, 1787, Smyth.

663 “I lament”: to Jane Mecom, Sept. 20, 1787, Smyth.

664 “This field”: Carl Van Doren,
Benjamin Franklin,
737.

664 “amuses himself”: to Lafayette, Apr. 17, 1787, Smyth.

664 “He sits”: Jeremy Belknap in William Parker Cutler,
Life, Journals and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler
(Cincinnati, 1888), 2:234.

664 “I have found”: to Mary Hewsom, May 6, 1786, Smyth.

29. SUNRISE AT DUSK: 1786–87

666 “Your newspapers”: to William Hunter, Nov. 24, 1786, Smyth.

667 “That there should be”: to Lafayette, Apr. 17, 1787, Smyth.

667 “Our public affairs”: to Abbés Chalut and Arnaud, Apr. 17, 1787, Smyth.

667–68 “How inconsistent … the officers”: Washington address, Mar. 15, 1783 (and footnote),
Writings of Washington;
Douglas Southall Freeman,
George Washington,
5:433–35.

668 “order of hereditary”: to Sarah Bache, Jan. 26, 1784, Smyth.

670 “a party of madmen … this mob”: David P. Szatmary,
Shays’ Rebellion
(Amherst, 1980), 71–81.

670–71 “most fatal … property”:
The Boisterous Sea of Liberty,
ed. David Brion Davis and Stephen Mintz, 227.

671 “Good God!”: Washington to Knox, Dec. 26, 1786,
Papers of Washington.

672 “render the federal constitution”:
Records of Convention,
3:14.

672 “It seems probable”: Madison to Edmund Pendleton, Feb. 24, 1787,
Writings of Madison.

672 “some disorderly people”: to Chevalier de Chastellux, Apr. 17, 1787, Smyth.

673 “I hope good”: to Jefferson, Apr. 19, 1787, Smyth.

673 “Your presence”: to Washington, Apr. 3, 1787,
Papers of Washington.

673 “by any commercial”: Catherine Drinker Bowen,
Miracle at Philadelphia
(Boston, 1966), 22.

674 “We have here”: to Thomas Jordan, May 18, 1787, Smyth.

674 “If you will”:
Records of Convention,
3:85. 674–75 “The nomination”:
ibid.,
1:4.

675 “Dr. Franklin”:
ibid.,
3:91.

676 “There are”:
ibid.,
1:81–85.

677 “The motion”:
ibid.,
1:85.

677 “How has it happened”: Smyth, 9:600–1.

679 “bastard brat … within himself”: Bowen,
Miracle,
108–9.

679 “deservedly celebrated”:
Records of Convention,
3:89.

679 “I believe”:
ibid.,
1:299–300.

680 “A single person’s”:
ibid.,
1:102–3.

681 “Some contend”:
ibid.,
1:471.

681 “Are not the large”:
ibid.,
1:491–92.

681 “This country”:
ibid.,
1:530.

682 “The diversity”:
ibid.,
1:488–89.

682 “There was no curiosity”: William Cutler,
Life, Journals and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler,
1:267–69; 2:363.

684 “Gentlemen … alarmed”:
Records of Convention,
3:86–87.

684–85 “The Doctor”: Cutler,
Life, Journals and Correspondence of Manasseh Cutler,
1:269–70.

686 “A veritable torture”: Bowen,
Miracle,
97.

686 “so weak”: to Jones, July 22, 1787, Smyth.

686–87 “What was the practice”:
Records of Convention,
2:65.

687 “contrary to”:
ibid.,
2:120.

687 “It is of great”:
ibid.,
2:204–5.

687 “to debase”:
ibid.,
2:249.

688 “not against”:
ibid.,
2:236–37.

688 “generally virulent”:
ibid.,
2:348.

688 “We seem”:
ibid.,
2:542.

689 “I confess”:
ibid.,
2:641–43.

690 “Done in Convention”:
ibid.

691 “Whilst the last”:
ibid.,
2:648.

30. TO SLEEP: 1787–90

692 “It is now”: Washington to Lafayette, Sept. 18, 1787,
Papers of Washington.

693 “As I enter …fruits of it”: Jackson Turner Main,
The Anti-Federalists
(New York, 1974), 122, 129, 132–34.

694 “The smaller”:
The Federalist Papers,
ed. Andrew Hacker (New York, 1964), 22–23.

694 “very great satisfaction”:
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution,
ed. Merrill Jensen (Madison, Wis., 1976–), 2:60.

695 “highly reverenced … old age”:
Independent Gazetteer,
Oct. 5, 1787, and
Freeman’s Journal,
Oct. 17, 1787; in
The Documentary History,
2:160, 185.

695 “Doctor Franklin’s”: Madison to Washington, Dec. 20, 1787,
Papers of Washington.

695 “Three and twenty”: Richard Miller, “The Federal City, 1783–1800,” in
Philadelphia,
ed. Russell Weigley, 164.

696 “I beg”: Lemay, 1144–48.

696 “Independence … President”: Miller, “Federal City,” 164–65.

697 “I must own”: to Jane Mecom, Nov. 4, 1787, Smyth.

697 “Some tell me”: to Mecom, Sept. 20, 1787, Smyth.

697 “a very great pleasure”: to John Lathrop, May 31, 1788, Smyth.

698 “They are wonderfully”: to Mecom, Aug. 3, 1789, Smyth.

698 “as I find”: to Alexander Small, Feb. 19, 1787, Bigelow.

698 “I thank you”: to Vaughan, Nov. 2, 1789, Bigelow.

698 “As the roughness”: to Buffon, Nov. 19, 1787, Smyth.

699 “Our ancient”: to Bowdoin, May 31, 1788, Smyth.

700 “Remarks Concerning”: Lemay, 969–74.

701 “The bad people”: Smyth, 9:523–25.

701 “always very friendly”: to John Jay, July 6, 1786, Smyth.