Note 188 — Chapter I · (continued 2)
Reading edition
Works relating to Franklin in Boston Pub. Lib., p. 20; Bancroft, orig. ed., v. 306; Penna. Mag. of Hist., viii. 426, and x. 220; Sparks's Franklin, i. 290; iv. 156, 161, 206; vii. 281; x. 429-32; Parton's Franklin, i. 436. The grounds of the accusation against Franklin are discussed in a correspondence of Franklin with Dean Tucker (Sparks's Franklin, iv. 518; Bigelow's Franklin, i. 460-466), and Tucker so far admitted his error as to omit the passage.