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Title: Scenes from the life of Benjamin Franklin
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Holman, Louis A. (Louis Arthur), 1866-1939 Mills, Charles B
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Publisher: Boston, Small, Maynard & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ness whenBenjamin was born. 13. In the Boston Public Library, by inquiring in BatesHall, one will be shown two original oil portraits of Franklin,one by Duplessis, and the other by Greuze, both paintedwhile he was resident at Passy near Paris, as representativeof the newly formed republic. 14. There is in the Harvard Memorial Hall a so-calledportrait of Franklin, said to have been painted during the yearhe spent in London as a journeyman printer, but there isgrave doubt about its genuineness. 15. The Lawrence Scientific School, Cambridge, containsan electric machine given to Harvard College by Franklin. (page 7) FRANKLIN THE BOY 16. In the library of the Masonic Temple, Boston, ispreserved Fishers mezzotint of Chamberlins portrait ofFranklin, on the reverse of which, in Franklins hand, is theinscription, For Mrs. Dorcas Stickney in Newbury. Mrs.Stickney, who was his niece, received Franklins gift fromParis in 1778, with the word that the sender considered ithis best portrait. (page 8)
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FRAXKLIX THE PRINTER THE Xeic England Courant, Xo. SO. From MondayFebruary 4, to Monday February 11, 17-23,was received by Boston with mixed feelings.Many there were who took honest satisfaction in the pluckyfight the little paper was making for free speech. Others, ofthe more vulgar sort, loudly applauded its bald and oftenunnecessarily insulting flings at the Governor, the Council,the ministers, and the church-goers. These would have takenas great a deUght in a dog-fight, but there were many ofthem, and their laughter at the awkward position in whichthe papers every move left the dignitaries was knowinglytaken advantage of by James FrankHn and his apprenticebrother, Benjamin. To those who had ears to hear, and therewere not a few on either side, this latest number of theCourant covertly yet plainly said Checkmate. Official and ultra-religious Boston was amazed and deeplychagrined; once again it had been circumvented. In itsattempt to change the tone of this exasperating httle sheet,

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