Description: The twenty-ninth volume of the collected writings and correspondences of the American statesman, ambassador, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin
Review Quotes: "This superb project continues to produce definitive volumes that are among the easiest of all documentary editions to use."--Journal of the Early Republic
"To read it through, or merely dip into it, is to be fascinated by the period, by the formidable powers of Benjamin Franklin and by the fresh look it affords at a formative period in American history."--Taliaferro Boatwright, New London Day (New London, CT) "[A] sumptuous book. It is in part a companion volume, containing essays by scholars of the period, and in part a catalogue of the exhibition, beautifully produced and amply illustrated. . . . As a coffee-table book it is delightful. . . . Dip into it lightly here and there. This will prove an absorbing and illuminating occupation. . . . But the chief pleasures of this book . . . come from the fascination of seeing, on page after page, the details of life as it used to be and how we have changed it all for better or for worse."--J. W. M. Thompson, Literary Review "The Franklin Papers project has been celebrated in the past by other reviewers. But several of our reasons for celebration bear repeating. Among those may be counted: the immense complexity in gathering materials surrounding a figure of such ubiquitous significance; the invaluable tapestry produced by interweaving material to as well as from Franklin; the intelligent methodology employed in everything from ascription to spelling; the precise yet Franklin-like clarity of introductions, notes, and other appended discursive information; the excellent cross-references regarding correspondence, persons, places, and things; and a complete and reliable index."--James Taag, Pennsylvania Magazine