Note 1340 — Chapter VIII · (continued 2)

The book was first published in London in 1759. (Carter-Brown, iii. 1,217.) Sparks, in reprinting it in his edition of Franklin’s Works, ii. p. 107, examines the question of Franklin’s relations to its composition and publication. The book had an appendix of original papers respecting the controversy. The copy which belonged to Thomas Penn is in the Franklin Collection, now in Washington. (U. S. Doc., no. 60.) Cf. Catal. of Franklin Books in Boston Public Library, p. 8.