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NOTES

Introduction

1. Bliven 12.

2. Franklin, Papers 7:246.

3. Abigail Adams 1:64.

4. Priestley 25:393.

5. Zall, ed., Wit and Wisdom 58.

6. Ibid., 43.

7. Ibid., 48.

8. Mazzei 215.

9. Balzac 2:115.

10. Zall, “Portrait” 53–65.

11. Zall, ed., Franklin on Franklin 80.

12. Ibid., 62.

13. Ibid., 165.

14. Ibid., 190.

15. Franklin, Papers 13:142.

16. Zall, ed., Franklin on Franklin 116.

17. Ibid., 243.

18. Ibid., 246.

19. Ibid., 254.

20. Franklin, Autobiography 172.

21. Franklin, Papers 22:85.

22. Ibid., 26:223.

23. Documentary History of Ratification, 13:214.

24. John Adams 1:663–64.

25. Zall, ed., Franklin on Franklin 279.

26. Franklin, Writings, ed. Smyth, 9:687.

27. Zall, ed., Franklin on Franklin 276.

28. Pennsylvania Gazette, 2 August 1738.

29. Zall, ed., Ben Franklin Laughing, 87.

30. Zall, ed., Jefferson on Jefferson 61.

31. Zall, ed., Ben Franklin Laughing, 140.

32. Zall, ed., Abe Lincoln Laughing 42.

33. Zall, ed., Franklin on Franklin 286.

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  • Title Page iii
  • Contents vii
  • Preface ix
  • Introduction - A Life in Laughter 1
  • 1- Silence Dogood 1722–1723 11
  • 2- Paragraphs in Philadelphia 1729–1735 27
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