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706 “But in this world”: to Le Roy, Nov. 13, 1789, Smyth.
706 “I can give”: to Le Veillard, Sept. 5, 1789, Smyth.
706 “which, calling”: to Abbé Morellet, Dec. 10, 1788, Smyth.
706 “Canada—delenda est”: BF notes to himself, n.d. [1790], LC.
706 “As much”: from Stiles, Jan. 28, 1790, Smyth, 10:85–86.
706 “It is the first”: to Stiles, Mar. 9, 1790, Smyth.
708 “Is it supposed”: Smyth, 10:59.
708 “the chapeau bras”: Smyth, 10:31.
708 “Mankind”: Parton, Franklin, 2:609–10.
709 “put me in mind”: to the Federal Gazette, Mar. 23, 1790, Smyth.
709 “Would to God”: from Washington, Sept. 23, 1789, Smyth, 10:41–42.
710 “At Philadelphia”: Writings of Jefferson, 1:161–62.
710 “The evening”: Rush to Richard Price, Apr. 24, 1790, Letters of Rush.
EPILOGUE: APRIL 17, 1990
713 “to such young”: Last will and testament, Smyth, 10:493ff.
713 “Everyone”: Boston Globe, Apr. 17, 1990.
714 “in the true spirit”: United Press International, Apr. 18, 1990.
715 “He has returned”: Alfred Aldridge, Franklin and His French Contemporaries, 213.
715 “A man is dead”: ibid., 230.
715 “The Body”: PBF, 1:111.
716 “Benjamin and Deborah Franklin”: Smyth, 10:508.
716 “A republic”: Records of Convention, 3:85.
Acknowledgments
For their help in the various tasks required to produce this book, the author would like to thank Roger Scholl of Doubleday; Roy Goodman of the American Philosophical Society; Ellen Cohn, Jonathan Dull, Claude-Anne Lopez, and Kate Ohno of the Benjamin Franklin Collection at Yale University; Laura Beardsley of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; J. A. Leo Lemay of the University of Delaware (for graciously making his Franklin materials available on the Internet); and James Hornfischer, my agent.
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