LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS WITH NOTES
Mrs. Sarah Bache 119 This picture is copied from an engraved reproduction which has often appeared in books relating to Franklin; but none of these reproductions are faithful copies of the original painting, which represents an older and less handsome woman, with more rugged features and more resemblance to Franklin. Permission to reproduce the painting could not be secured.
Front Page of the First Number of the "Pennsylvannia Gazette" 135 Reproduced by permission from the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Title-Page of Poor Richard's Almanac for 1733 144 Reproduced by permission from the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Franklin's Maritime Suggestions 188 These figures accompanied Franklin's letter to Alphonsus Le Roy on maritime improvements.
Franklin's Letter to Strahan 267 William Strahan was Franklin's intimate friend, although they differed on the subject of the Revolution. The letter was half jest, half earnest, and in this tone Franklin always wrote to him on political subjects. In 1784 he wrote him an affectionate, but teasing and sarcastic letter on the success of the Revolution.
Franklin Cannot Die 275
From an old French engraving in the collection of Mr. Clarence S. Bement, of Philadelphia. Death has seized Franklin and is dragging him to the lower world. The figure half kneeling is America, with her bow and arrows and the skin of a wild beast, imploring Death to spare her deliverer. Fame is flying in the air, with a crape on her arm and a trumpet, announcing that le grand Franklin has saved his country and given her liberty in spite of tyrants. The spirit of Philosophy and a warrior are weeping at the foot of the monument, on which is a lightning-rod; while France, a fair, soft woman, seizes Franklin in her arms to bear him to the sky.
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