THE author wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to Paul Leicester Ford's "The Many-sided Franklin," to Sydney George Fisher's "The True Benjamin Franklin," to Franklin's admirable Autobiography, and to James Parton's excellent " Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin," for much of the material contained in this book.

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