Franklin’s Wit & Folly. The Bagatelles / / Richard E. Amacher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Amacher, Richard E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [1953]; ©1953
• Year of Publication: 1953
• Edition: Reprint 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Franklin's Letter to Mme. Brillon (April 8, 1784) -- Dialogue Between Franklin and the Gout -- The Whistle -- The Ephemera -- The Elysian Fields -- The Elysian Fields -- Bilked for Breakfast -- Letter to the Royal Academy -- A Tale -- Parable Against Persecution -- Information to Those Who Would Remove to America -- Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America -- The Handsome and the Deformed Leg -- The Morals of Chess -- Other Morals of Chess -- Supplementary Bagatelles -- Note on the Supplementary Bagatelles -- Two Extra Commandments -- An Humble Petition, Presented to Mme Helvétius by her Cats -- To the Abbé de la Roche, at Auteuil -- Letter from Franklin to the Abbé More -- Appendix A, The Provenance of the Mason Copy of the Bagatelles -- Appendix B, Textual Notes -- Appendix C, The Passy Press Types -- Appendix D, Franklin's Friends and Acquaintances -- Bibliography -- Index