OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INCLUDING HIS PRIVATE AS WELL AS HIS OFFICIAL AND SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE, AND PRINTED, WITH MANY OTHERS NOT INCLUDED IN ANY FORMER COLLECTION ALSO THE UNMUTILATED AND CORRECT VERSION OF HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY COMPILED AND EDITED BY JOHN BIGELOW "Strange that Ulysses does a thousand things so well."-ILIAD, B. 11, 335 VOL. V. NEW YORK AND LONDON G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS The Knickerbocker Press 1887 CCCCLXXI.-To Thomas Cushing, January 5th, His birthday. CCCCLXXIII.-To Joseph Galloway, January 6th, Franklin's remuneration as agent in England-A qualification of his lecture on CCCCLXXIV.-To Mrs. Deborah Franklin, Feb- ruary 2d. CCCCLXXV.-To John Bartram, February 10th, 95 ΙΟΙ Lightning conductors-The attraction of Sober second thought. CCCCLXXXIX.-To Thomas Cushing, March 9th. CCCCXC.-To M. Dubourg, March 10th On the analogy between magnetism and - |