2. Mumford is identified in XXXIII, 4n, where we erroneously stated that he remained in BF’s household for the duration of the war. His uncle Silas Deane, who was charged with finding him a position, approached JW in December, 1781. The details of employment were negotiated in December and January, during which time Mumford continued to copy letters for BF. His first extant letter from Nantes is dated March 5, and implies that he had already been there some time: JW to WTF, Dec. 13 and 26; WTF to JW, Dec. 19 and 29; Mumford to WTF, March 5 (all at the APS).

3. JW to BF, July 22, 1784, APS. The “Liste des livres de Mr. Franklin” follows this document.

4. In providing bibliographic information, we have been guided whenever possible by the catalogue of books and pamphlets identified as having come from BF’s library, compiled by the late Edwin Wolf 2nd of the Library Company of Philadelphia. These copies, inscribed by BF or WTF, or bearing BF’s unique shelf marks, are indicated here with an *. See Edwin Wolf 2nd, “The Reconstruction of Benjamin Franklin’s Library,” The Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America, LVI (1962), pp. 1–16; James N. Green, comp., Poor Richard’s Books (Philadelphia, 1990), pp. 8–13.

In cases where BF’s copies have not been located, we offer publication information only when we can be reasonably certain of an edition; otherwise, works are cited only by author and title. Items obscure enough to defy our efforts at identification are left unannotated. In instances of very long titles we follow the precedent set in IX, 275–7, and silently omit whatever follows the essential first parts.

When we can cite evidence of BF’s acquisition or ownership of a certain book, we follow the title with a reference in square brackets.

5. The first five works in this list may be identified as follows: *Journals of Congress (Philadelphia, 1777–81); Abel Boyer, French and English Dictionary; Thomas Nugent, The New Pocket Dictionary of the French and English Languages; *Charles LeRoy, Traité de l’orthographe françoise, en forme de dictionaire, nouvelle édition … augmentée sur la révision & les corrections de M. Restaut (Poitiers, 1775); Louis de Cahusac, Grigri, histoire véritable traduite du japonais en portugais, par Didaque Hadeczuca, compagnon d’un missionnaire à Yendo, et du portugais en français par l’abbé de *** aumonier d’un vaisseau Hollandais (Paris? 1739).

6. The following five works beginning with this one are: Algernon Sidney, Discourses Concerning Government [BF purchased this on Dec. 11, 1779 (Account XXIII); see also III, 406, and XVII, 47]; William Jones, ed., Speeches of Isœus (London, 1779); William Guthrie, A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar; English Cookery must be the “Cookery book” that William Caslon bought for WTF in 1780 (Caslon to WTF, March 10, 1780, APS).

7. The following five works beginning with this one are: Gabriel Girard, Synonymes françois; James Burrow, De ratione et usu interpungendi; Essay on Punctuation (London, 1772); *Edward Young, Love of Fame, the Universal Passion (Glasgow, 1755); Charles Bordes, Parapilla: poëme en cinq chants; François-Etienne Gouge de Cessières, L’art d’aimer, nouveau poëme en six chants.

8. The following five works beginning with this one are: *Etienne Bonnot de Condillac, La Logique (Paris, 1780); *Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, Petit code de la raison humaine (London, 1773) [see XV, 115n; XIX, 159–60, 329, 384–6; XX, 41; XXI, 304]; Matthew Quin, Quin’s Rudiments of Book-keeping; Timothy Matlack, An Oration Delivered March 16, 1780 (Philadelphia, 1780) [XXXII, 282]. The Vision, a Poem was a title given to several works by different authors.

9. The following five works beginning with this one are: *Philippe Quinault, Persée, tragédie-lyrique (Paris, 1780); *Jean-François Marmontel, Céphale et Procris, ballet héroique (Paris, 1777); William Meredith, Historical Remarks on the Taxation of Free States (London, 1778) [XXX, 548]; *[Julien-Pierre] de La Faye, Recherches sur la préparation que les Romains donnoient à la chaux (Paris, 1777) [XXIV, 65n; XXVI, 514]; Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, Recherches sur la durée de la grossesse (Amsterdam, 1765).

1. The first title is either J. Rutlidge, Le Babillard (Paris, 1778 / 1779), a serial, or M. Boissy, Le Babillard, comédie en un acte, et en vers. The following four works are: Edme Boursault, Esope à la cour: comédie héroique; *Humbert Gerbier, Quatrième Lettre de M. Gerbier, Docteur en Médecine … A M M. les Auteurs de la Gazette de Santé (Geneva and Paris, 1777); Antoine Baratier, marquis de Saint-Auban, Discussion sur les effets des pièces de cannon de différentes longueurs (Paris, 1780); Thomas Hutchins, A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina (London, 1778) [XXXIII, 297–8; XXXIV, 89].

2. The following five works beginning with this one are: Jean-François Cailhava d’Estendoux, L’Egoïsme, comédie … (Paris, 1777 or 1778); *Ange Goudar, L’Espion françois à Londres (London, 1779); Michele Torcia, Relation de la dernière éruption du Vésuve … (Naples, [1779]); *Pierre-Nicolas Changeux, Météorographie ou Art d’observer d’une manière commode et utile les phénomènes de l’atmosphère (Paris, 1781); Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, Elémens de médecine, en forme d’aphorismes (Paris, 1780).

3. The following five works beginning with this one are: *Melchisédech Thévenot, L’Art de nager (Paris, 1780) [BF read the London, 1699, English translation as a young man: Autobiog., 104]; the next work may be Joseph Palmer, A Four Months Tour Through France (London and Dublin, 1776); Jacob Duché, Caspipina’s Letters (Bath and London, 1777); *Jean-Louis Wagnière, Commentaire historique sur les œuvres de l’auteur de la Henriade (Basle, 1776); Charles Johnson, The Complete Art of Writing Letters.

4. The following five works beginning with this one are: John Milton, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained [VIII, 157, 307]; *Richard Price, Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty (Philadelphia, 1776); Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language; Rev. Sir Herbert Croft, Love and Madness (London, 1780); either William Owen, Owen’s New Book of Roads, or, A Description of the Roads of Great Britain …, or Daniel Paterson, A New and Accurate Description of All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in Great Britain, both of which were sent to WTF in 1779 [XXVIII, 598].

5. The following five works beginning with this one are: *Aimé-Ambroise-Joseph Feutry, Robinson Crusoé, nouvelle imitation de l’anglois (3rd ed., Paris, 1780) [the author sent this to WTF on Feb. 27, 1780; his cover letter is at the APS]; *Callière, Recueil de bons mots des anciens et des modernes (Paris, 1709); *André-Joseph Panckoucke, L’Art de désopiler la rate (Venice, 1773); M. Le Vacher de La Feutrie, ed., L’Ecole de Salerne, ou, l’Art de conserver sa santé; Nicolai Detlef Falck, A Treatise on the Venereal Disease (London, 1772 or 1774).

6. The following five works beginning with this one are: Jean-François Marmontel, Les Incas ou la Destruction de l’empire du Pérou (Paris, 1777); Nicholas Romayne, Dissertatio inauguralis, de puris generatione … (Edinburgh, 1780); François Danican Philidor, L’Analyse des échecs; Louis Laurent Prault, L’Esprit d’Henri IV. Two of Aimé-Ambroise-Joseph Feutry’s works were originally listed here, but were crossed out to leave only this general reference. The two works were *Opuscules poëtiques et philologiques (The Hague, 1771) and *Nouveaux opuscules (Paris, 1779) [XXXII, 517–18n].

7. The following five works beginning with this one are: *Sebastiano Francesco Batini, Instructions sur la semence, plantation et culture des mûriers … traduites par M. Joubert (Paris, 1770); *Jean Dusaulx, De la passion du jeu, depuis les temps anciens jusqu’à nos jours (Paris, 1779); *marquis de Saint-Auban, Mémoire sur les nouveaux systèmes d’artillerie (Paris, 1775); *Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Le Parfait boulanger (Paris, 1778) [XXVII, 578]; *John Byrom, The Universal English Short-Hand (Manchester, 1767).

8. The following five works beginning with this one are: either Journal étranger (Paris, 1754–62), or Journal étranger de littérature, des spectacles, et de politique (London, 1777–78); possibly Henry Herbert, earl of Pembroke, Method of Breaking Horses; *Adam Fitz-Adam [pseud.], The World, in Four Volumes (Edinburgh, 1776); Junius [pseud.], The Letters of Junius (London, 1770); *The Adventurer (4 vols., London, 1770), a series whose contributors included John Hawkesworth, Samuel Johnson, Richard Bathurst, and Joseph Wharton.

9. The following five works beginning with this one are: Henry Fielding, The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews; *John Langhorne, D.D., and William Langhorne, M.A., Plutarch’s Lives, Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch (6 vols., London, 1774); Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations; *François-Alexandre-Aubert de La Chesnaye-Desbois, Dictionnaire Militaire (3 vols., Paris, 1758); Alain-René Le Sage, Le Diable boiteux.

1. The following five works beginning with this one are: *La Science du bonhomme Richard, moyen facile de payer les impôts (Philadelphia, 1778), Antoine-François Quétant, trans.; *Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères de monsieur de La Bruyère (Paris, 1768) [this copy, now at the Library Company of Philadelphia, was signed by WTF in 1777; BF also bought a copy from Pissot in December, 1781]; *Marie-Madeleine d’Aguesseau Le Guerchois, Avis d’une mère à son fils (Paris, 1743–47); Jean de La Fontaine, Contes et nouvelles en vers and Fables choisies.

2. The following five works beginning with this one are: François de La Rochefoucauld, Les Pensées, maximes et reflexions morales [purchased from Pissot in December, 1781; see Editorial Headnote on Accounts]; Flavius Eutropius, Abrégé de l’histoire romaine; abbé Millot, Elémens de l’histoire de France; *Pierre Chompré, Dictionnaire abrégé de la fable (Paris, 1774); Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Des principes des négociations.

3. The following five works beginning with this one are: Jean-Puget de La Serre, Le Secrétaire du cabinet; *Noël-François de Wailly, Principes généraux et particuliers de la langue française (Paris, 1780); Abel Boyer, A New French Grammar; André-Joseph Panckoucke, Dictionnaire des proverbes françois …; Pierre Restaut, Principes généraux et raisonnés de la grammaire françoise.

4. The following five works beginning with this one are: *Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas Hurtaut, Dictionnaire des mots homonymes de la langue françoise (Paris, 1775); *Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d’Olivet, Remarques sur la langue françoise (Paris, 1771); Francesco d’Alberti di Villanova, Nouveau dictionnaire françois-italien; Giovanni Veneroni, Le Maître italien; Ferdinando Altieri, Grammatica inglese, the contiene un’ esatto e facil metodo per apprendere questa lingua.

5. Fénelon’s Les Aventures de Télémaque (1699) inspired countless translations and imitations in verse, drama, and opera throughout the 18th century. The second work is Giovanni Boccaccio, Il Decamerone. The fifth is *Laurent Tricot, Nouvelle méthode plus claire et plus détaillée, à l’usage des collèges de l’université de Paris (Paris, 1777).

6. The following five works beginning with this one are: *Nicolas Adam, La Vraie Manière d’apprendre une langue quelconque vivante ou morte par le moyen de la langue françoise, vol. 2 (Paris, 1780); Thomas Ruddiman, Rudiments of the Latin Tongue; possibly William Lily, Latin Grammar; *John Mair, An Introduction to Latin Syntax (Edinburgh, 1777); *Phaedrus, Les Fables de Phédre … nouvelle traduction, trans. Le Maistre de Sacy (Rouen, 1779).

7. The following five works beginning with this one are: *Flavius Eutropius, Eutropii historiœ romanœ breviarium (Edinburgh, 1747); Selecteæ historiæ could refer to any number of selections of biblical stories with this phrase in the title; Cicero, Les Offices de Cicéron; *Caius Julius Cæsar, C. Julii Cæsaris quæ extant cum notis & animadversionibus Dionysii Vossii (Amsterdam, 1697).

8. None of BF’s own copies of Virgil (in French), Horace, Juvenal, Sallust, or Livy has been located.

9. The following five works beginning with this one are: M. Le Bel, L’Art d’apprendre le latin sans maître (Paris, 1780); *Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity; *Bernard-Germain-Etienne de La Ville, comte de Lacépède, Essai sur l’électricité naturelle et artificielle (Paris, 1781) [XXXV, 4]; Edme-Gilles Guyot, Nouvelles récréations physiques et mathématiques; *Pierre-Joseph Macquer, Dictionnaire de chymie (2 vols., Paris, 1766).

1. The last two works are: Edme Mentelle, Cosmographie élémentaire (Paris, 1781); Isaac Watts, Logick [BF requested this work in November, 1780: XXXIII, 508].