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- Volume 1, Number 1, Summer 1989:
A Brief History of the Franklin Papers.
Initial Meeting, October 21, 1988.
Volume XXVIII of the Papers.
Founding Membership - Volume 1, Number 2 Spring 1990
Program of the Philadelphia Conference, 4/17/1990.
Photo: Stuart Karu, Sheldon Hackney, Sondra Myers -.
Ellen Cohn: Hemery type foundry at Passy.
New Friends: Finkenbeiner, Krider, Tise, Greenslet, Wright.
Craven Street property purchased.
Books: Lester Olson, Robert Middlekauff, Max Hall. - Volume 1, Number 3 Fall 1990
Larry Tise (from the Memorial), President Karu.
Bower Awards started.
At Leo LeMay’s Initiative, by Deane M. Sherman.
Le Docteur Franklin Remembered in France: by Dilys Winegrad [corrected in 2_1 to be Claude-Anne Lopez). Lopez, LeMay lectures.
Papers, Volumes 28, 29, 30.
Books: Peter Baida: Poor Richard’s Legacy: American Business Values from BF to Donald T.: “The sad tale…”
Books: Rogers, Clark, Cohen,
Book: James N. Green, Poor Richard’s Books. (exhibit)
Books: Hall, Winegrad, Lopez, Scarf, Skemp (WF), Jeffrey A. Smith, Tise, Wright.
Philadelphia event, January 17, 1991. - Volume 1, Number 4: was not issued.
- Volume 2, Number 1 Winter, 1991.
Larry Tise: Franklin’s bequest dispersement,
Pittsburg Junta. Waters gift to make Franklin a Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary Club. Franklin University of Columbus, Ohio. (5) Digital edition of The Pennsylvania Gazette by Accessible Archives. (6) Was Franklin Left-Handed (per Willard Randall, A Little Revenge, p. 33)? Others say no.Philadelphia tour: APS included BF’s traveling chess set, his Declaration, the air mail letter from WF to WTF. Michael Castle family letters bequest discussed by Claude-Anne Lopez. Library Company: BF shelf numbers.Frank Jones: first gift to the Papers, grant from Culpeper Foundation.Activities in Italy (Sampietroin Milan), France (Lorient).Philadelphia Hospital Art Contest.Correction of authorship.Book: William Carr, The Oldest Delegate, summarized.New Children’s Books: Adler, Aliki, Carr, Daugherty, Davidson, Feldman, Greene, Looby, Meltzer, Osborne, Potter, Scarf, and Stamp Club Coloring Book (USPS).Next meeting: why so many biographies of WF and BFB but none of Sally Franklin Bache? - Volume 2, Number 2 Spring 1991:
Tise: (1) Life Insurance Company, (2) Doug Whitley public radio support (and letter), (3) Hennage furnishings in Antiques magazine Dec 1990, (4) Archbold, Meikla, Scroggins, Long, (5) Chambersburg High School visit.
Photo: 1949 seated statue by James Earle Fraser at Franklin Life Insurance Company, Springfield, IL, later seen on West Wing.
Progress on supporting the Papers: out of print volumes to be reprinted.
Franklin at Yale.
BF Art Video by Peter Rose.
Philadelphia Kite Festival.
Death of Edwin Wolf 2nd.
Book Review Bonanza: NYRB 1/31/1991 Secrets of BF by E.S. Morgan.
Excerpt from Francis J. O’Brien 1972 history of the Franklin Life Insurance Company and James Earle Fraser.
Drafts available: Samuel Bryan Scott, Edward W. Chester, Aaron Goldman.
April 1991 event schedule, Philadelphia.
Purchasing Plan for the Papers.
England tour for October 7-14, 1991 scheduled. - Volume 2, Number 3, Summer, 1991:
Claude-Anne Lopez, “On The Trail of the Last Franklin, 1. Who Was Temple” (with a killer quote by Jonathan Williams),
Recipe for Orange Shrub. - Benjamin Franklin in England, October 7-14, 1991: brochure about the trip.
- Volume 2, Number 4[3], Fall 1991: published with an incorrect Volume/Number identification (“Volume 2, Number 3, Fall 1991”).
“Friends Meet in New Haven.”
“A Selective Guide to Printed Material Relating to the Iconography and Artifacts of Benjamin Franklin.”
Claude-Anne Lopez, “On the Trail of the Last Franklin: 2. Who knew what?”
- Volume 3, Number 1, Winter, 1992:
Claude-Anne Lopez, “Franklin at Yale: Keep Bright the Chain” (regarding a teapot),
“Sound Sense” by William G. Carr on Franklin, Massachusetts.
Claude-Anne Lopez, “On the Trail of the Last Franklin: 3. Surprise at Sea.”
Max Hall, “Franklin the Grammar-School Drop-Out.” - Volume 3, Number 2, Spring, 1992:
Tour to Perth Amboy, NJ.
NEH Grant to the Papers.
Max Hall, “Franklin the Grammar-School Drop-Out…: II. Relations with Harvard”
Deane Sherman and William Carr: “Franklin Without A Mask”.
Dick Hoefnagel, “The Difference One Little Word Can Make; A Misreading in Poor Richard, 1747.
Claude-Anne Lopez, “On the Trail of the Last Franklin: 4. The Go-Between.” - Volume 3, Number 3: Summer, 1992:
From the Desk of Larry Tise
Claude-Anne Lopez, “Some New Light on Franklin’s Mother”
Franklin Descendants Project
Mrs. Cecilia Gniewek-Brauer, armonicist
Max Hall, “Franklin the Grammar-School Dropout… III. His Curiosity”
Plan for the Boston Tour, October 2-3, 1992
Aaron Goldman, “BF, Fund Raiser”
Claude-Anne Lopez, “On the Trail of the Last Franklin: 5: Settling in Paris (1777-78)” with citation to Prof. Thomas Schaeper regarding Leray du Chaumont. - Volume 3, Number 4: Fall 1992.
Historic Boston Walking Tour
1990 Europe Tour
Ellen Cohn, The Wedding of Jonathan Williams, Jr.
Max Hall, “Franklin the … Dropout … IV: His Writing Ability”
- Volume 4, Number 1: Winter, 1993
287th Birthday Report: BF and His Enemies
William Carr photo
Arguments in Boston on their Franklin Fund
1990 Europe Tour
Claude-Anne Lopez: “William Temple Franklin: The Shape of Things to Come”
Jonathan Williams, Jr. Wedding Brooch: the front!
Family in Portland, Oregon - Volume 4, Number 2: Spring, 1993
Barbara Oberg: Papers, Volume 30 in page proofs.
Historic Connecticut visit to Mystic.
Portland, Oregon: sculpture in BF School.
Claude-Anne Lopez: “When Franklin Played Cupid”
Claude-Anne Lopez: “William Temple Franklin: Dreams of Glory, Part VII”
Tour of Europe, 1990
William W. L. Glenn, MD, “BF: Philosopher and Physician”
BF’s Old Northwest: October 1993 visit to Chicago. - Volume 4, Number 3: Summer 1993
NEH Interns at the BF Memorial
Tour of Europe, 1990
Claude-Anne Lopez and Ellen Cohn, “Franklin and P. T. Barnum”
William Carr, “Belair [in Bowie, Maryland], A Whirlwind Visit by BF”
Max Hall, “Franklin’s Other Errata”
Claude-Anne Lopez, “A Portrait of Debbie”
Statues in Philadelphia, 1914 (the crumbled one from 1892) - Volume 4, Number 4: Winter 1993
Craven Street update
Franklin Papers Enter Electronic Age
Jonathan Dull, “New Light on BF’s Attitude Towards Judaism”
How A Franklin Letter Was Discovered [by Deane Sherman, at the James Monroe Museum]
Andrew Clayton, “BF and the Expansion of the American Empire” from his Chicago presentation
Claude-Anne Lopez: “WTF: In Limbo, part VIII”
J. Watkins Strouss, “A Journey to [Montreal] Canada”
George Waters, “BF’s Important Role in Minnesota’s History” from his Chicago presentation
Bernard Fay questions, I. Bernard Cohen’s first name, Scott Snow oil painting.
- Volume 5, Number 1, Spring 1994:
I. Bernard Cohen, “Benjamin Franklin’s Use of Scientific Analogues and Metaphors in a Political Context: Part One”.
“BF and Women: The Symposium That Was”.
Aaron Goldman, “Ben Franklin on Religion: In His Own Words.”
Passing of Dr. Raymond Kjellberg and Ezra Stone. - Volume 5, Number 2: Summer 1994
Claude-Anne Lopez, “That Bratty Brother Benjamin”
Upcoming D.C. program, including Some Franklinian Music by Martin Mangold and Joan McFarland
I. Bernard Cohen, “BF’s Use of Scientific Analogues and Metaphors in a Political Context”
Doug Hall, new Life Member
The Influence of Franklin’s Will
BF’s England in 1994, by Larry E. Tise: Bowood, Oxford, Twyford, 36 Craven Street (“things are not at all well”)
Claude-Anne Lopez, “On the Trail of the Last Franklin, Part IX: Women”
Roy Goodman, “A Database of Franklin Images” at the National Museum of American Art - Volume 5, Number 3: Fall 1994
D. C. Tour, September 29. Crab-tree walking stick photo. Congressman Charles Rose welcome.
Cosmos Club musical presentation by Martin Mangold, “although he had become a father only hours earlier [the birth of Barrett Jacob Mangold 9/29/1994]”
Claude-Anne Lopez, “Franklin, as Usual, on the Cutting Edge of Technology”
Dr. William G. Carr, “Does Anyone Here Remember BF?”
Paris trip, October 1995
Symposium, May 1995 - Volume 5, Number 4: Winter 1994
Paris Itinerary for October 1995
Symposium plans for May 1995, “BF and Black Americans”
Boston Bequest Resolved
Claude-Anne Lopez, “On the Trail of the Last Franklin, Part X”
- Volume 6, Number 1: Spring 1995
BF and Black Americans Symposium
Ralph G. Elliot, “BF and the Law of Libel”
Claude-Anne Lopez, “On the Trail of the Last Franklin, Part XI: Interlude” [May-September 1781]
Christian Selden, “The Use of Illustrations in BF’s Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America”
Paris Update: Optional Tour of Normandy, list of participants, October 23-30, 1995
Grolier Club image, Craven Street picture, and “more lamentable news”
Larry E. Tise, “The Sayings of Confucius and Franklin”
Claude-Anne Lopez: “Dapper Ben”, his purple suit at the Museum of American History - Volume 6, Number 2: Summer 1995
Larry E. Tise: Four Great Images in Philadelphia
Claude-Anne Lopez, “On the Trail of the Last Franklin, Part XII: The Helpful Jay, the Prickly John Adams”
Ralph G. Elliott, “BF and the Law of Libel”, part II.
Claude-Anne Lopez: BF’s Recipe for Chopped Pate. boiled duck, rice pudding
Letters from S. S. Block and Max Hall - Volume 6, Number 3: Fall 1995
George Selden, Paris Tour, October 1995 Giverny, Versailles, Normandy
Franklin and American Prisoners of War: forthcoming book by Sheldon S. Cohen - Volume 6, Number 4: Winter 1995
Dorothy Medlin, “A Parisian Friend of Franklin: Andre Morrelet”
Claude-Anne Lopez: “A Particular Dinner Set with a Complicated Background”
Craven Street, “still in a deplorable state” (L.E. Tise)
Francine Britton, book review: Max Hall’s An Embarassment of Misprints
BF and His Friends, May 1996
In Memoriam, William George Carr, 1901-1996
- Volume 7, Number 1: Spring 1996
New Officers
Claude-Anne Lopez: “When Franklin Was Fooled and What Barabara Found”
Williamsburg update, November 1996
Ralph G. Elliot, “BF and the Law of Libel – Part III”
Francine Britton, “Franklin’s Playful and Insatiable Curiosity”
Franklin Chronology published
David Hartman, Norman Rockwell tie - Volume 7, Number 2: Summer 1996
Mark Babinski, “BF’s Interest in Maps of North America”
Roy Goodman, “Autumn [web] Surfing”
Barbara Oberg, “Friends of Franklin Generate New Contributions for the Papers”
John V. Alviti, “Frankliniana, Off the Shelf” – Franklin Institute Science Museum
Armonica or Harmonica: Webster’s Ninth
Emily Croll, “Wedgwoods ‘Franklins’ to be Exhibited at APS”, picture of the Slave Medallion
Images from the Japanese translation of Poor Richard
Founding Life Members listed for the first time that I’ve noticed - Volume 7, Number 3: Autumn 1996
Claude-Anne Lopez, “The American Utopia of Dr. Guillotin”
London and England Tour, October 1997
Charles Lard, “BF’s Historic Williamsburg and Virginia,” November 1996
Francine Britton, book review, “BF and the Chamber of Time” by Chris Heimerdinger - Volume 7, Number 4: Winter 1997
Claude-Anne Lopez, “Franklin and Mesmer: An Encounter” Picture from 1995 at the site
Larry E. Tise has left the Franklin Institute
London and England Tour
Pictures from Williamsburg, November 1996
Franklin Genealogy, by Ellie Fitzig
Philadelphia Flower Show (photo)
- Volume 8, Numbers 1 & 2, Summer 1998
President’s Greeting, by Ralph Gregory Elliot
Claude-Anne Lopez, “Franklin and Mesmer” – conclusion
Penelope Harshorne Batcheler, “London’s Franklin House and Twyford’s Gazebo” – report from the 1997 tour.
Franklin on the Internet
Member Profile: Pamela Hartsock
October 1998 tour of Philadelphia and Delaware
Claude-Anne Lopez: “Meet the Franklin Papers Team!”
Newsletter layout by Alison Lewis - Volume 8, Number 3: Fall 1998
Franklin and the Constution
Jeffrey R. Allen, “Research on Franklin: Learning from Franklin Court…”
Seymour M. Gluck, M.D. “Notes on Franklin’s Flexible Catheter”
Claude-Anne Lopez, “Prophet and Loss: BF, the Jews, and Cyber-Bigotry” Part I.
New Member Profile: Franklin Elementary, Wichita Falls, Texas
Correction from Barabara Oberg: Yale does contribute to the Papers
Meet the Franklin Team, part 2: Jonathan Dull
Larry E. Tise, “The Friends are Going to Scotland, September 1999”
Philadelphia / Winterthur participants, October 1998
Upcoming in 1999: “Franklin and His Friends” at National Portrait Gallery - Volume 8, Number 4: Winter 1998
Mike George, “Report: The ‘Franklin in Philadelphia’ Tour” Picture of Ft. Mifflin
Outreach to Youth
Claude-Anne Lopez, “Prophet and Loss: BF, the Jews, and Cyber-Bigotry” Part II.
Elly Fitzig, “This Side of the Gene Pool”
“Skeletons in the Closet” [Craven Street]
- Volume 9, Number 1: Spring, 1999
Barbara Oberg farewell
Franklin Robinson, MD: On Dr. BF’s Maritime Observations … Gulf Stream, part 1.
Reviews: Walters, Denecke, Cohen, Hurd Smith
Scotland Tour Itinerary, NPG Exhibit, Ships. - Volume 9, Number 2: Summer, 1999
BF and Mark Twain
Franklin Robinson, MD, Part 2.
Havelock Ellis on BF by Kate Ohno
The Search forSettle (Richard Bache) by Philip S. Hessinger
New website (benfranklin2006.org)
Glass Music International
St. Malo Press: BF’s Recipes - Volume 9, Number 3: Fall 1999
On The Morals of Chess
Claude-Anne Lopez, My Life with BF
BF on Welfare and Workfare
FOF Chronology
The Franklin Table, by Jay Robert Stiefel (Freeman’s sale of furniture of George Vaux 10th of the Athenaeum)
us history.org – Temple’s Diary
Tours: Boston and Nantucket, Paris. - Volume 9, Number 4: Winter, 1999
Temple’s art: On Wine
Judith Adkins joins Franklin Papers
Franklinia alatamaha Census by Martha Lee Wolf
Descendants data.
Point and Counterpoint – Claude-Anne Lopez.
Update on 36 Craven Street, by Penelope Hartshorne Batcheler.
Dudley Herschbach profile
BF’s drinking song (Fair Venus) by Claude-Anne Lopez.
Chester Brooks Kerr appreciation
- Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2000:
Claude-Anne Lopez and Kate Ohno: BF in His Own [Angry] Words.
Claude-Anne Lopez on My Life With Benjamin Franklin. Franklin’s London Home (36 Craven Street) plans. Song sung at BF Elementary School, Wichita Falls, TX. - Volume 10, Number 2: Summer 2000
My Life with Benjamin Franklin, by Claude-Anne Lopez
Franklin’s Drawing of the Garden at Passy
FOF Board, pictured
Josh Kornbluth
Joshua Standig, “Check Mate” on Franklin & Chess
Claude-Anne Lopez, “A New Document, Written and Signed by Himself!”
Lopez and Kate Ohno, “BF in his Own [Angry] Words”, Part 1: February 12, 1774, responding to Josiah Tucker.
Larry Kaiser, “What BF Really Said About Vegetarianism”
Stephen M. Lash, “BF’s Armonica”
Tour of Boston and Nantucket, November 2000
Call for Papers: BF in the New Millenium 30 Nov 2000 - Volume 10, Number 3: Fall 2000
Elliot: Visit to Craven Street, Heinrich Heine…
News from the Papers: Judy Adkins, Blair Darney
Paul Pasles, “BF, Magician?” [the Magic Squares]
Lopez & Ohno: “Franklin on Happiness”, Ellicott’s diary of a visit to Franklin Court.
Review, Blaine McCormick’s “BF’s Twelve Rules of Management”
Review, Peter Sterki, “Klingenda Glaser…” [on the armonica]
Announcement of tour, German, October 2001
Junto, Anyone?
Hilaire Dubourcq, Benjamin Franklin Book of Recipes
Third annual Benjamin Franklin, Founder in January 2001
Franklin Essay Contest - Volume 10, Number 4: Winter, 2000
Aquila Rose elegy for sale.
Lopez & Ohno: “Advice to the IRS”
Seymour Block, “More on Franklin and Women”
Adeline Tomaone, “Benjamin Franklin and Music”
Claude-Anne Lopez, “Sin of Omission? Sin of Comission? No Sin at All?” Early Freemasonry, Daniel Rees.
Benjamin Franklin Down South: park bench sculpture, Photo: Seyour Block, sculptor George Lundeen, Tony Barr of Barr Systems, Gainesville, Florida
In Memoriam: Aaron Goldman, by Claude-Anne Lopez
Belgium and the Netherlands, September-October 2001
- Volume 11, Number 1, Spring 2001
President’s Message by Ralph Gregory Elliot: Franklin and Lincoln
Franklin Rods, by Kate Ohno
Claude-Anne Lopez, “From Warm to Very Warm to Icy to So-So: The Story of a Friendship: Benjamin Franklin and William Strahan: Part I: Introductions”
BF and David Hume, by Mark G. Spenser
Franklin Essay Contest Winners
Joint Meeting of the FoF Board with the Friends of the Franklin Papers at Yale (picture)
Book: BF and the Magic Squares by Frank Murphy
FoF Trip to Brussels, Bruges… and, of course, Amsterdam
Welcome to our New Life Member, E. Cutter Hughes, Jr.
FoF Membership Medallion (picture)
Featured Friend: Phil W. Greenslet - Volume 11, Number 2:
L. David Roper, “Proposal to Use BF’s Y-Chromosome to Settle Some Family Traditions about Relationships to Benjamin.”
William A. Betts, “The Brief Return of Dr. Benjamin Franklin.” [fiction on the ephemera].
Claude-Anne Lopez, “From Warm to Very Warm to Icy to So-So: The Story of a Friendship: Benjamin Franklin and William Strahan: Part II: Books Across the Sea.”
Pamela Hartsock, Ph.D.! - Volume 11, Number 3, Fall, 2001:
Franklin and Blackbeard.
Claude-Anne Lopez, “From Warm to Very Warm to Icy to So-So: The Story of a Friendship: Benjamin Franklin and William Strahan: Part III: Matchmaking?” and
“In His Own Words: Young Franklin on Partisanship and Good Government”.
Sheldon S. Cohen: “Griffith Williams: Friend to BF and Friend to American Liberty”.
“Franklin in Japan – Comes to Philadelphia!”.
L. David Roper: “More on Y-Chromosomes” - Volume 11, Number 4, Winter, 2001:
Advertisement, BF’s Three-Wheeled Clock.”
Elizbeth Ihrig, “The Bakken’s Glass Armonica” [Minneapolis, MN: thebakken.org. In 2018, I find only this exhibit].
- Volume 12, Number 1: Spring 2002
The Tercenterary Celebration of Franklin’s Legacy
2002 BF Founder Celebration, Focus on Risk Protection
Robert Gibbons, “A Mutual Exchange of Benefits”
Visit to the Huntington, February 2003
Franklin’s Bequest - Volume 12, Number 2, Summer 2002:
Claude-Anne Lopez, “A Little Portrait of Willy Bache.”
“Ben Franklin: Unplugged” [Josh Kornbluth’s one man play].
Franklin Genetics Project website. - Volume 12, Number 3: Fall 2002
Picture of Claude-Anne Lopez
Successful Fund Drive for the Friends
E. Philip Krider, “The First Lightning Rods”
BF and Project Integrity
The Declaration of Independence and the Polly Baker Parable
Seeking Information on Thomas Franklin (1792/3 – 1840)
Benjamin Franklin’s California, February 2003 - Volume 12, Number 4: Winter 2002
PBS Series
New Year Verses of the Printer’s Lad, 1752
BF on Solitude, August 25, 1726
Birthday Celebrations in Philadelphia, New Haven
E. Philip Krider, “The First Lightning Rods”, continued: photo from Independence Hall
- Volume 13, Number 1: Spring 2003
Pasadena, California seminar on Franklin as a Bostonian: Bill Meikle, Nian-Sheng Huang, Robert Middlekauf, Dr. Paul Zall, Pamela Hartsock, Mike Barbour, Ron Coleman, Stuart Green.
Volume 37 is iminent.
Christ Church Burial Ground reopens
Kate Ohno, “A Striking Likeness”
James Kelly, “The Interception of Franklin’s Correcpondence in 1784”
Cecilia Brauer, “Franklin’s Musical Influence”
In Memoriam, Dr. William W. L. Glenn, by Claude-Anne Lopez - Volume 13, Number 2: Summer, 2003
Photo, Franklin seated figurine
Eliot: visit to Craven Street
Franklin Public Library, Massachusetts: “Books Instead of a Bell”
Claude-Anne Lopez, “At the Dawn of Science” part I.
Kate Ohno, “BF and the Plant that Swept America” (broomcorn)
In His Own Words, “Joys at Every Age”
Valerie-Anne Lutz and Jim Maier, “Franklin’s Well at Fort Allen, Weissport, Pa.” photo from 1905.
In Memoriam: Fenmore Seaton
Dr. Martin Levitt appointed Librarian at APS. - Volume 13, Number 3: Fall 2003
Walter Isaacson’s Benjamin Franklin
Photo: Van Loo portrait
Benjamin Franklin Schools in partnership
Ellen Cohn, “A Franklin Papers Anniversary” with 1953-54 letters between Henry Luce and Leonard Labaree
Claude-Anne Lopez, “At the Dawn of Science” part II.
Phillip Syng, Jr. of Philadelphia (1703-1789)
The Philadelphia Electrical Experiments of Franklin, Syng, Hopkinson and Kinnersley
In His Own Words: Franklin on France
Claude-Anne Lopez on her disappointment with Time Magazine’s presentation of her writing.
In Memoriam: I. Bernard Cohen, Richard Miles, Doctor Frank Robinson - Volume 13, Number 4: Winter 2003
Gore Vidal’s Inventing A Nation
Image: Bianchi’s Profile Sketch on Fabric, APS
Franklin Tercentenary Commission Announced: Ralph Archbold, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et. al.
Page Talbot, “Save America’s Treasures Grant Will Preserve Franklin-Related Items”
Stuart A. Green, “BF and A Matter of Lunacy”
James Ferguson’s Account of Franklin’s Three-Wheel Clock”
Kate Ohno, “Holiday Gift Guide for Franklinophiles”
“Franklinia Alatamaha Reintroduced” along the Alatamaha River in Georgia
National Archives’ Murals Restored
Additional Armonica Notes
In Memoriam: Franklin Bache Satterthwaite, descendant; Malcom Smith
Benjamin Franklin, Abolitionist at Franklin and Marshall
- Volume 14, Number 1: Spring 2004
Volume 37 released
Franklin’s Birthday Celebration: Focus on Freedom of the Press
A Special Preview of Volume 37 of the Papers
Kate Ohno, “Mapping the Past” (the Military Road Franklin took to Canada in 1776)
Ellen Cohn, “The Philosopher and the Peasant”
Philomel Concert, Ben Franklin’s Musical World
Christ Church Graveyard Records on CD
BF And Italy tour, September-October 2004
Franklin & Medicine special interest group - Volume 14, Number 2: Summer 2004
Gordon Woods, The Americanization of BF.
Franklin Tercentenary exhibit to open October 2005
Claude-Anne Lopez, “Franklin and [Gaetano] Filangieri: An Interesting Friendship”
Kate Ohno, “Franklin in Risorgimento Italy”
Dr. Eric Kandel, New Creativity Laureate
Alfred Owen Aldridge article in Early American Literature
Edmund S. Morgan book of essays, The Genuine Ariticle - Volume 14, Number 3: Fall 2004
Chernow’s Hamilton and Newmyer’s Marshall, states’ rights vs. national government
Tercentenary update
Andreaa Sutcliffe, “Franklin and the Early Steamboat Inventors”
Franklin Finding Aids Online at APS
In His Own Words: to David Hartley, October 14, 1777 on prisoners
Dudley Herschbach, “BF and Joseph Priestley: Kindred Kites … Amiable Airs”
Tidbits, Reads, Events - Volume 14, Number 4
Message from President Ralph Gregory Elliott
Friends to visit Washington, DC (Isaacson, Lopez, Srodes, Lehrer, Cohn, et. al.)
Tercentenary Database progress, Connie Hershey.
Libertas Medal.
BF and Erasmus Darwin, by Prof. Jonathan Powers.
Ben & His Cooked Turkey, by John Walburn.
Meet You in Aichi [Japan]?
Seymour Stanton Block biography.
In Memoriam: Charles W. Lard, 1946-2004.
Josh Kornbluth, Benjamin Franklin Unplugged, by Claude-Anne Lopez: their joint appearance in San Francisco, November 6, (2004?). - Volume 15, Number 1: Spring 2005
Final letter from Ralph Gregory Eliot, who passed away February 28.
Acting President: Roy Goodman
Claude-Anne Lopez: “Thank you, Ralph”
In His Own Words: A New Child Born Among the Immortals, to BF’s niece, Elizabeth Hubbard on the death of his brother John.
Martin Mangold, “Notes on Reading Franklin” – A sigh for Francis in a letter to the Marquis de Lafayette
James Zug, “American Explorer Meets American Icon” about John Ledyard, (from his book, American Traveler)
Tercentenary relocates and redesigns.
Tidbits: BF Climatologist? New statue in Franklin, Massachusetts. Craven Street to open to the public. - Volume 15, Number 2: Summer 2005
From the Acting President, Roy Goodman: April 8-9, 2o05 symposium in Washington, DC, Franklin award to Claude-Anne Lopez. Music by Martin Mangold, JOan McFarland, Ellen Cohn and Clif Hardin.
Announcing A Runaway’s Journeys, Boston to Philadelphia, September 10-17, 2005.
Anna Coxe Toogood: “BF Takes on the Tanners” (in 1739).
Claude-Anne Lopez, “Something Franklin Did Not Predict” – Jonathan Odell’s “Inscription for a Chamber-Stove” from 1776.
Burrus M. Carnahan, “Franklin and the Geneva Conventions”
“BF’s Popularity in 1777” as reported by Silas Deane.
In His Own Words: “On War: An Army is a Devouring Monster”
Tidbits: Jim Lehrer’s The Franklin Affair.
Auction of The Chester Woodward Collection of Frankliniana.
Tercentenary exhibits all over.
Stuart Green’s Bar-B-Q in California, August 6, 2005 - Volume 15, Number 3: Fall 2005
Message from the President, Roy Goodman.
Image: engraving by Mocquet, APS.
Recreational Mathematics: A Short Course in Honor of the 300th Birthday of BF
BF and Sports Hall of Fame
Tercentenary: BF’s arrival in Philadelphia re-enacted
Penelope Hartshorne Batcheler, “Franklin and His Philadelphia Row Houses” 316, 318 and 322 Market Street. The new archway.
Philadephia Contributorship (website) Digital Archives
Philadelphia Orchestra premieres “Ben” by Daniel Kellogg
Ron D’Amato, “The Esteemed Dr. Franklin was Back in Town” from the Warwick Beacon
Calendar of Events, September 15, 2005 to November 2006. - Volume 15, Number 4 Winter 2005
Message from President Roy E. Goodman
Board Members Noah Katz, Blaine McCormick, George Franklin Waters.
NYU Conference, opening February 2006.
Franklin Abroad: The Duke de La Rouchefoucauld: An Aristocrtatic Disciple of Franklin, by Daniel Vaugelade, translated by Karen Duval.
BF: Founder Father of American Business, by Blaine McCormick.
BF to GW: Should Peace Arrive.
Curtis Institute of Music, Daniel Kellogg symphony, “Ben”
Symposium at Belmont University in Nashville: Amy Sturgis, Carla Mulford, Lester Olson, Ellen Cohn, etc.
- Volume 16, Number 1 Spring 2006. Page 7 (missing from earlier scan).
Message from President Roy Goodman: commemoration of Franklin 200th.
Tercentenary News.
A Message from Claude=-Anne Lopez.
Jan 17, 1906 message by Boston’s mayor.
230 Years Ago to the Day: Another Birthday Party, by Claude-Anne Lopez, from Temple’s Diary.
Franklin Abroad: The Americans at Passy and the Chalut Family Circle, by Phillippe Alasseur.
Reading, Tidbits, London and Paris Trip upcoming, Adrian Sassoon. Arion Press, Calendar. - Volume 16, Number 2 Summer 2006
Roy Goodman: BF and the Midwest.
Exhibition, “BF: In Search of a Better World.
Frankliniana Database at www.benfranklin300.org.
“An Eighteenth-Century Version of the Convenience Store” by Claude-Anne Lopez
In His Own Words: What Constitutes a Civil Society (1/13/1772 to Babcock).
“A Look at the Franklin Court Mastodon Tooth” by Patrice L. Jeppson.
“Balzac Recalls Franklin” by Eleanor Gesensway
BF House Open for Franklin’s 300th Birthday.
Franklin’s Role in 1783 Negotiations Recognized in Minnesota.
Friends Tercentennial Tour, Oct 26-Nov 5, Follow Franklin’s Footsteps in “His London and Paris Years.”
“BF: Different Aspects of the Man” by Seymore S. Block.
Tidbits: University of Virginia “Inventing America”, University of Milan, “Promoting Sciences”, University of Michigan, “Franklin in the Blogosphere.” Juan Cole on Arabic publication of the Founding Fathers (Blog Post 2/11/2004). Good Reads: Eating, HSP, Alan Houston/Cambridge, Dan Kalenak, Jill Lepore “Goodbye Columbus”, Eric Ratliffe, “BF: A Narrative in Verse on the Life and Works of BF”, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, James Morrow, “The Last Witchfighter” – the mother of WF. Stamped With That Familiar Face. Many others: high-water-mark of the tercentennary! New York City weekend. - Volume 16, Number 3 Fall 2006
Roy Goodman: September tour of New York, Skousen presentation, NYU Bobst Library.
Villanova Seminars, by Paul Pasles (mentions Cecilia Brauer’s armonica performance).
Teacher Educators… by Dr. Robert Houston.
North West Angle Dedication (George Waters, Phil Krider, Roy Goodman).
BF and the Morals of Chess by Dr. John McCrary.
James Madison and the Preservation of Franklin’s Legacy: An Historical Mystery Solved, by Kate Ohno (regarding the May 9, 1759 Extract of a Letter).
Franklin Abroad: BF and France, Paris and the French, by Daniel Jouve. Translated by Claude-Anne Lopez.
In His Own Words: Sneak Preview of Volume 38 of the Papers. With reference to Claude-Anne Lopze, “A Story of Grandfathers, Fathers and Songs”, Yale University Library Gazette, liii (1979), 177-95.
Good Reads: tricentennial publications. - Volume 16, Number 4, Winter 2006
Message from President Roy E. Goodman: Fuel costs.
Franklin Abroad by Heather Crease: Benjamin Franklin’s Connection with Tenterden, by Peter and Aline Davis [see also the Spring 2007 issue, below].
Celebrating Franklin’s 300th Birthday at the 2006 International IEEE EMC Symposium and Trivia Questions by Aziz S. Inan – I believe these are Professor Inan’s first contribution to the Gazette: after this, his math puzzlers appear in almost every issue.
Graves of William Franklin and William Temple Franklin, by L. David Roper (with photos). See also our current article.
An excerpt from Franklin in Love, A Play by Patrick Hugeuenin
In his own words: The Elysian Fields
London-Paris pilgrimage, October 2006.
The wreck of the Bonhomme Richard, page 8.
Advertisement: WaxPortraits.com - Volume 17, Number 1: Spring 2007
From President Roy Goodman: Commonwealth’s share of the Franklin Trust Fund, $833,605, dispursed to Community Foundations.
Aziz S. Inan, Mathematical Puzzles.
In Memoriam: Penelope Hartshorne Batcheler, Benjamin Franklin Kahn, Bill Meikle.
Charles Armbruster, “Questions for BF from William Franklin” from his book.
Franklin Abroad: Portrait Sold in Paris
Dr. Dave Wang, “Exploring BF’s Moral Life” [Confucius, etc.]
Eleanor Gesensway, “[L]ines on hearing of the death of Dr. Franklin,” regarding Annis B. Stockton, daughter of Elias Baudinot, born in Darby, PA. in 1736. From the Rush-Williams-Biddle Papers in the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia.
Hospitality at the [Philip] Schuyler Mansion [in Albany, NY]
Additional acknowledgements from the Winter 2006 edition on Tenterden by Peter and Aline Davis on Page 11. - Volume 17, Number 2: Summer 2007
Call for Participants in a Seminar on Franklin’s Familes in Portland, Oregon in 2008.
Friends trip to Burlington, NJ: report and photos.
Sheila Skemp, “The American Revolution as a Civil War”
Arthur L. Kaplan, Ph.D., “Ben Franklin: Early Bioethicist?”
Reading Franklin: review of reviews around 2006.
In His Own Words: Franklin’s Advice to a Scholar (Ingenhousz, October 1781).
Tidbits: Sale of Franklin Life Insurance Building, what of its sculpture? Replacement of the “Penny Benny” at Fourth and Arch. - Volume 17, Number 3: Fall 2007
Announcing the Netherlands & Belgium Tour, September 2008.
Christ Church Announces a Digital Archives Site
In His Own Words, In Defense of America, May 9, 1759
Andrew A. Zellers-Frederick, “Prime Suspect: Franklin’s Role in a Murder” (the Daniel Rees tragedy)
Tidbits: virtual beer with Franklin, Lafayette’s 250th birthday. George Boudreau on John Jones, Shoemaker, of the Junto. PMHB July 2007.
Congratulations to Grace Lee and Tom Edgar on the birth of the newest Franklin descendant, 2007. - Volume 17, Number 4: Winter 2007
Caitlin Fitz, “Franklin Abroad: Benjamin Franklin and Brazilian Independence”
Valerie-Anne Lutz, APS, “Out of the Mud and Into the Garret, the Paper Mill and the Tailor Shop: The Unusual Provenance of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin”
In His Own Words, In Defense of America, May 9, 1759, Part II
The first appearance of the URL friendsoffranklin.org that I’ve noticed, page 8.
Tidbits: “Franklin and Figaro,” play by Kristina Sutherland. George Boudreau’s Teaching Franklin website (now located here). Old brewery in Burlington, NJ for sale.
- Volume 18, Number 1: Spring 2008
Princeton’s Morven Museum & Garden hosting (President) Roy Goodman’s exhibit, “Ben Again.”
Stuart Green’s Dear Dr. Franklin
Franklin’s 302nd Birthday Celebration
Stuart Green, “Franklin, Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery”, Part I.
Dave Wang, “Benjamin Franklin and the Great Wall of China”
In His Own Words, “Builder of Fortifications” – January 1756, original recently found and sold.
Franklin Abroad: A Successful Hoax, Elkanah Watson, Jr. - Volume 18, Number 2: Summer 2008
From President Roy Goodman: Meryl Streep awarded the Laureate Prize.
Joshua L. Rosenbloom, “Poor Richard’s Wealth: An Estimate”
In His Own Words: “Silk Diplomacy” – to Sally, March 16, 1780.
Dave Wang, “BF’s Efforts to Promote Sericulture [silk production] in North America”
Stuart Green, “Franklin, Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery”, Part II.
Tidbits: Franklin and the Media symposium in Paris, Ellen Cohn spoke.
State Department’s inaugural Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Diplomacy
Reading: Andrea Wulf, The Brother Gardeners. Alan Gibson, Understanding the Founding: The Crucial Questions. (2nd edition here) - Volume 18, Number 3, Fall 2008
Lancaster discussion, in President’s Message by Roy E. Goodman
A Message from Eleanor Gesensway, New FOF Board Member
Thomas Barclay letter, January 18, 1782
Consul Thomas Barclay working for/with BF, by Priscilla H. and Richard S. Roberts
American Women and Enlightenment Science, by Susan Branson
Jim Srodes on Franklin’s wealth (p. 2-3).
The Glass Harmonica: A Novel, by Louise Marley (p.3).
Franklin’s accounts online, Paul Pasles on BF’s Numbers (p. 10) - Volume 18, Number 4, Winter 2008
The Apostle of Liberty Immortalized, 1790 image.
Franklin and Money symposium coming April 17, 2009.
LeMay volume 3, Alan Houston BF and the Politics of Improvement.
In Memoriam: J. A. Leo Lemay
In Memoriam: Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.
BF in Auray, December, 1776, by Genevieve Hamon
“More Money to be Borrowed” — BF and Robert R. Livingston Correspondence, September 1783.
What was it like working for/with BF? Part II by Priscila H. Roberts and Richard S. Roberts
Papers, Volume 39 released.
Carla Mulford, The Cambridge Companion to BF.
Edwin Wolf Legacy Library online at LibraryThing.com
Franklin’s Passport for British Ships
- Volume 19, Number 1, Spring 2009
Charles Darwin. J. A. Leo Lemay appreciation by James Srodes.
The American Swindler Thomas Digges by John Walburn
2009 Celebration (picture includes the late John C. Bogle), theme “BF Goes to Wall Street”
The Philadelphia Contributorship: BF’s Insurance Office
Perfect Square Dates by Aziz S. Inan, Ph.D.
Michael Pollan and BF on food systems
The Gulf Stream Revisited by John Buchanan
In Memoriam: Benjamin Franklin Reinauer, II
Hudson Valley Trip coming in October. - Volume 19, Number 2, Summer 2009
Franklin, Agriculture and the Physiocrats, by Kate Mearns Ohno
Craven Street event in Washington, DC (photo)
Franklin and Mortgages, Part I, by Robert E. Wright
BF, Creditor
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin: Meet the People, by Kate Mearns Ohno
CD from 2009 symposium. - Volume 19, Number 3, Fall 2009
From President Roy E. Goodman: common-place.org
In Memoriam: Frank B. Jones
Franklin in Literature – Past and Present, by Eleanor Gesensway
The Friends of Franklin visit Albany, September-October 2009
Champlost: Estate of the Fox Family and Repository for Franklin’s Papers, by Valerie-Anne Lutz van Ammers, APS.
Franklin and Mortgages, Part II. by Robert E. Wright
Graphic: Sheriff’s Sales Advertisements…1760-69.
In His Own Words: How to Make Wine (“make advantage of the blessings of providence”) - Volume 19, Number 4, Winter 2009-2010
BF Birthday celebrations with Gen. Eisenhower, p. 3
BF and the Hudson Valley: Part I, Summer, 1754 by Kate Mearns Ohno (with Snake cartoon)
Upcoming Scotland Trip, p. 6, 8.
Short Hints, p.7
Early American Studies on The Atlantic World of Print, p. 9
In Memoriam: James Gassaway.
- Volume 20, Number 1, Spring 2010
Ben Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Initiative, p. 1 (President: Roy E. Goodman)
Franklin’s Climate Change Video
BF and the Hudson Valley: Part II, Late Winter, 1776 by Kate Mearns Ohno
BF: Breastfeeding Advocate? by Karen Poppy
National Archives Photostream on Flikr, p. 9 - Volume 20, Number 2, Summer 2010
President: Lee Knepp.
J.A. Leo LeMay (1935-2008), A Remembrance by Kevin J. Hayes
Franklin Family Descendants: A Collateral Line: The Williams/Alexander Family
Palindrome Dates in BF’s Life, by Aziz S. Inan
BF and the Hudson Valley: Part III, Spring, 1776 by Kate Ohno
Franklin in Scotland, 1771, by Kate Ohno - Volume 20, Number 3, Fall 2010
A Renaissance for the Glass Armonica? by Charlotte and Bob Craig
The FoF Visit Scotland…2010 by Elly Fitzig
BF as an Editor
BF and the Hudson Valley: Part IV, by Kate Ohno.
Patience Wright: by Eleanor Gesensway
LeMay legacy: Documentary History site, LL’s books. - Volume 20, Number 4, Winter 2010/2011
The Influence of Franklin’s Autobiography on Judaism, by Shai Afsai
The History of the Friends of Franklin, by Martin Mangold
Franklin’s Descendants: BF Bache’s Resolutions, 9/29/1789.
Words of Learning in the Age of Franklin: Part I, by John Pollack (from the Tercentenary).
1841 Verses to Celebrate Franklin’s Birthday, by James Montgomery
In Memoriam: Max Hall
- Volume 21, Number 1, Spring 2011
BF and the Pennsylvania Germans
Descendants Visit: Ted & Sharon Molin, Lisa & Daniel Bache, Ralph Archbold
Sugar Independence (Richard Price, Archibald Redford).
Good Education Part II by John Pollack
Following in His Great-Grandfather’s Footsteps: The Remarkable Career of Brigadier General Hartman Bache by Andrew A. Zellers-Frederick, Executive Director of The Woodlands.
In Memoriam: William D. “Bill” Anderson of Wichita. - Volume 21, Number 2, Summer 2011
The Development of the Postal Service, by Bob and Charlotte Craig
Franklin and Christ Church of Philadelphia.
Dear Doctor Franklin by Stuart Green available.
Worlds of Learning Part III by John Pollack
Union Fire Company marker dedicated
BF on the possible defeat of the USA, 1784.
Smithville, NJ (Hezekiah B. Smith) by Eleanor Gesensway
More 17s by Aziz S. Inan
BF and his Canary Island History, by Carlos Cologan Soriano.
Franklin tooth at APS.
The Blackwell Companion to BF by David Waldstreicher
The Political Trial of BF by Kenneth Lawing Penegar - Volume 21, Number 3, Fall 2011
BF In Search of a Better World visit upcoming.
No more Raping and Pillaging from Yale Alumni Magazine
Franklin Abroad
BF and the Bennsylvania Germans tour, by Jean K. Wolf (September tour)
Worlds of Learning, part IV, by John Pollack
Franklin Court Renovations underway
275th Anniversary of the Union Fire Company
Papers Volume 40 released. - Volume 21, Number 4, Winter 2011/2012
Passing of Frank H. Batchelor
Celebration 2012!
Past Celebrations
BF’s Religion by Louis C. Washburn, Rector of Old Christ Church
Le Veillard to William Temple Franklin, 7/27/1785
In Montreal: Franklin and the Revolutionary Wife [Jane Hughes], by Bruno Paul Stenson
Christopher Lowell website.
- Volume 22, Number 1, Fall 2012
Musings: Catherine The Great and Benjamin Franklin, by Eleanor Gesensway
April 2012 Weekend in Washington, D.C. by Martin Mangold
The “Phylosephy” of Crown Soap, by Julie Hegner
Emma Thompson letters of 1777
Math Puzzlers by Aziz S. Inan - Volume 22, Number 2, Winter 2012-2013
Final Issue
Ellen Cohn, “In Memoriam: Claude-Anne Lopez (1920-2012)
Franklin’s Stove, by Alysia Cain
A Message from the Board of the Friends of Franklin