Injunctions to his wife and daughter about church attendance,99.Dr. Brown's travesty on Bible,99.Strictures by Franklin on letter against doctrine of special providence,100.As Philanthropist and CitizenObservation on escape from shipwreck, i.,102.Humorous remarks on workings of human reason,103.Eager interest in increase of his species,103.Aversion to war,107.Comments on existence of evil in the world,107(note).His freedom from misanthropy,111.Lines on Landlord of Life and Time,113.His famous epitaph,114.His desire to revisit world after death,115.Nothing less than a Friend of Man,116.Termed "lover of his species" by Burke,116.Indebtedness to Mather's Essays to do Good,117.Character of doer of good that most highly prized by him,117.His saying, that power of one man for doing good is prodigious,117.The Junto,117.The Philadelphia City Library,122.His comments on importance of modesty in promoting public objects,122.The Philadelphia City Watch,125.The Philadelphia Fire Company,126.The Philadelphia Academy,127,128.The Philadelphia Philosophical Society,127.His opposition to Latin and Greek,137.His pedagogic insight,138.His early education,138.His bequest to schools of Boston,138(note).His self-education,139.His observations on proper methods of teaching languages,140.The Philadelphia Hospital,140.Advice to Rev. Gilbert Tennent to solicit from everybody,142.Paving projects,143.Remarks on triviality of origin of human felicity,144.Philadelphia City lighting,145.Significance of Franklin's services to Philadelphia,146.Suggests voyage of the Argo to the Arctics,146.Efforts in behalf of Kalm and Bartram, the naturalists,146.Efforts in behalf of silk culture,146.Gifts to Philadelphia hospital,147.Purchases for and gifts to Harvard College,147.Services in connection with negro emancipation, the free blacks, the Bray Fund and the Society for benefit of poor Germans,147.Comments on Germans in Pennsylvania,147,148(note).Introduces yellow willow and rhubarb plant,148.Disseminates broom-corn seed,148.Proves value of plaster,148.Suggests insurance against storms, etc.,148.Essay on Maize,149.John Adams' story of the grapevines,149.Franklin's prayer that he might be useful to his fellow-creatures,150.His trick for doing much with little money,150.His posthumous benefactions to Boston and Philadelphia,151.Breadth of his philanthropy,153.Supports plan for supplying New Zealand with certain quadrupeds,153.Protects Capt. Cook,154.Also Moravian Mission vessel,155.Also Irish ship for West Indian relief,155.Enforces rule "free ships, free goods,"155.Approves exemption of non-combatants from penalties of war,155.Stipulation against privateering in Prussian Treaty,156.Detestation of privateering,156.Franklin no Quaker or visionary,157.Story of Logan and William Penn,157.Physical characteristics of Franklin,158.Youthful love of water,158.Story of the purloined building stones and Josiah Franklin's lecture,159.Was a boxing boy,159(note).Adventure on the Isle of Wight,159.How he punished Collins,160.His firmness of character,161.Letter of rebuke to Capt. Landais,162.Circumstances which produced Plain Truth,163.Results of this pamphlet,169.Journey to New York in quest of cannon,170.Close relations at this time with Governor and Council,171.Draws up fast proclamation,171.Bearing of Quakers in regard to defence of Pennsylvania,171.Advice of young man to Franklin to resign his office as Clerk to Assembly,172.Franklin as an office-holder,172.Forehandedness about office in keeping with his advice to grandson,174(note).Real extent of opposition of Quakers to defensive warfare,174.Relations of Franklin and his son to Braddock expedition,177.Pusillanimous conduct of Col. Dunbar,182.Dunbar violates promise to return servants,183.Franklin's Militia Bill,183.Dialogue between X Y and Z,184.Governor offers to make Franklin a general,185.Takes charge of N. W. frontier of Pennsylvania,185.Incidents on his way to and at Gnadenhutten,186.Returns to Philadelphia and is elected Colonel,188.His regiment and experiences as Colonel,189.Summary of military services of Franklin,190.Massacre of Indians by Paxton Boys and its denunciation by Franklin,191.His Family RelationsGenerous conduct to his brother James, i.,198.And to James' son,199.Story of Franklin and Deborah,205.Their marriage,211.Her helpfulness to him,211.Advises her not to make an expensive wedding for their daughter Sally,212.Letter of rebuke from him to her,213.Deborah and Sarah Broughton's charges,214.Incidents relating to Deborah told by Daniel Fisher in his Diary,215.Later improved relations between Deborah and William Franklin,217,218.Resolute conduct of Deborah when house threatened,217.Devotion of Deborah to Franklin,219,221.Her illiteracy,220,222,223.Supplies sent by her to Franklin when absent,223.Absences of Franklin from her,224.Her aversion to the sea,224.Transatlantic voyages of Franklin,224(note).Efforts of Strahan to get Deborah to England,225,227.Early correspondence between Strahan and Franklin as to the latter's daughter Sally,225.Personal appearance of this daughter,226.Affection of Franklin for Deborah,228.Loyalty to her irreproachable,229.Verses on his Plain Country Joan,230.References to Deborah in his letters to Catherine Ray,231.Correspondence between him and Deborah,231.References to his daughter in his letters to Deborah,235.Portrait of his daughter,236(note).His son-in-law, Richard Bache,236.His grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache,238,239,240,256,258,259,260,261,262,266.His godson, William Hewson,239.Other children of his daughter,240.Francis Folger, son of Franklin,240."Franky" not his son,240.References to Deborah's relations in Franklin's letters to her,241.References to William Franklin in these letters,241.References to servants,242.References to Franklin's Pennsylvania friends,244.References to his new house,245.Exchanges of gifts between Franklin and Deborah,246.Gifts to his daughter,248.Familiarity with household affairs and articles,249.Occasional home-sickness,250.Illness when in England,251.Deborah's ill-health,252.Letters to his daughter and her husband,253.Letter from her to him about housekeeping for her mother,255(note).Sally's hatred of South Carolinians,259.William Bache, Franklin's grandson,260,261.Bequest of diamonds to Sally by Franklin,261.Appoints Richard Bache to office,262.On his return from his second mission he resided with the Baches,261.And after his return from France,263.Comments on Sally Bache by Marbois and De Chastellux,263.Domestic conditions surrounding Franklin towards his end,263,265.Later relations between Franklin and his son William,264,264(note).Family of Sally Bache at close of Franklin's life,265,266.Franklin's father and mother,266.Story told by his father,268.Franklin's grandfather, Peter Folger,269.The Folgers,270.Franklin's letters to his father and mother,270.Her letters to him,272.Letters to his sister Jane about their parents,273.Estate left by his father,274.Loving relations of Franklin with his kinsfolk,274.His uncles John and Thomas and grandfather Thomas,274,275.His uncle Benjamin,275.This uncle's poetry books,275.And collection of pamphlets,277.Samuel Franklin, grandson of this uncle,277.Remaining relations of Franklin in England in 1767,277.His letter to a Franklin at Königsberg,277.Had exact account of Franklins from 1555,278.Observations on Jemmy Franklin,278.Bequest to his brother James' descendants,279.Franklin's four brothers who died young and his brother Josiah,279.His brothers John and Peter,279,280(note).His letter to Peter's widow,280.His brother Samuel,280.His sister Dowse,280.Wise and feeling letter about her,280.His sister Mrs. Holmes,282.His sister Lydia Scott,282.His sister Anne Harris and her descendants,282.Her daughter Grace Harris and her husband Jonathan Williams and her sons,283.His sister Sarah Davenport,286.Letter from him to Josiah Davenport refusing him an office,286.Relations between him and his sister Jane Mecom and her family,287.Bequests by Franklin to members of his father's family,301.Relations between him and Deborah's family,301.Sharp letter to James Read,301.Franklin's interest in his ancestors,302.Notes on subject by his uncle Benjamin,302.Visit to his relation, Mary Fisher, in England,303.Old Tythes Book sent by Carlyle to Edw. Everett,303(note).Thomas Franklin,305.Deborah's English relations,306.Sally Franklin and her father Thomas Franklin, of Lutterworth,306.Letter from Josiah Franklin about his ancestors,307.His American FriendsFriends who accompanied him to Trenton, i.,310.House full of friends on his return from England in 1762,311.Rejoicing over his safe return to England,311.His friends "along the Continent,"311.Many friends in New England,312.Visits to Boston,312.Description of his return from New England in 1755,312.Accidents to Franklin,312.Friends in New York and New Jersey,314.Visits to Maryland and Virginia,314.Friends in Charleston,315.Dr. Garden, Dr. Lining, Henry Laurens and John Laurens,315.Death of John Laurens,316(note).Relations between Franklin and Washington,316.Widespread fame of the two in America,317(note).Relations between Franklin and Jefferson,318.Humorous stories about Franklin by Jefferson,318,321(note).Franklin and Charles Carroll of Carrollton,321.Franklin and John Carroll,321.Franklin and William Carmichael,322.James Ralph and other young Philadelphia friends of Franklin,323.Ralph's version of 18th Psalm,324.Comments of author on Ralph,325(note).Junto friends,326.Hugh Roberts,328.Philip Syng,330.Samuel Rhoads,330.Luke Morris,331.Dr. Thomas Bond,332.Dr. John Bard,332.Dr. Benjamin Rush,332.Stories about Franklin by Dr. Rush,333.John Bartram,334.John Hughes,336.Thomas Hopkinson,337.Effect of Whitefield's eloquence on him,338.Francis Hopkinson,338.Col. Henry Bouquet,340.Lee and Izard, Franklin's only two enemies,340.Warning to his daughter about his enemies,340.Dr. Cadwallader Evans,342.Abel James and Thomas Wharton,343.Samuel Wharton,343.Ebenezer Kinnersley,345.John Foxcroft and Rev. Thos. Coombe,346.James Wright and Susannah Wright,346.Anthony Benezet,347.Joseph Galloway,347.James Logan, David Hall and Charles Thomson,350.David Rittenhouse,350.John Jay,350.Josiah Quincy, John Winthrop and Dr. Samuel Cooper,352.James Bowdoin,352.Young Josiah Quincy,352.Mather Byles,354.Samuel Danforth,355.Jared Eliot,356.Dr. Ezra Stiles,362.Dr. Samuel Johnson,363,364.Jared Ingersoll,364.Catherine Ray,364.His British FriendsMrs. Margaret Stevenson, i.,372.Polly Stevenson,374.Wm. Strahan,392.Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of St. Asaph's,405.Catherine Louisa Shipley,407,409,410,412,417,417(note).Georgiana Shipley,407,410,413.Anna Maria Shipley,411,412.Dr. John Pringle,415,416,417,417(note).Dr. John Fothergill,421.David Barclay,423. Franklin a "clubable" man,424.Dr. Price,425.Dr. Joseph Priestley,429.Benjamin Vaughan,432.Dr. John Hawkesworth and John Stanley,437.John Sargent,438.John Canton,438.Dr. Alexander Small,439.John Alleyne,442.Edward Bridgen,442.Edmund Burke,443.Mrs. Thompson,442,443.John Whitehurst,442,445.Anthony Tissington,442,445.Thomas Viny,442,445.Caleb Whitefoord,442,447,447(note).Peter Collinson,447.Rev. George Whitefield,447,449.David Hartley,447,456.Ballad of Auld Robin Gray,460.The Farce, God-send or the Wreckers,462.George Whatley,447,463.Lord LeDespencer,447,452.James Hutton,447,453.Sir Alexander Dick,463.Lady Alexander Dick,464.Lord Kames,464.Scotch social conditions in 1759,464,465.David Hume,467.William Alexander,469.Mariamne Williams, wife of Jonathan Williams, Jr.,469.Sir Edward Newenham,469.Richard Jackson,470.Gen. Horatio Gates,470.Gen. Charles Lee,470,471.Benjamin West,470,471.Mrs. Benjamin West,472.Raphael West,472.Mr. Mead,472.His French FriendsSocial life of Franklin in France, i.,473,474.His love of France and the French people,476.His opinion of the French people,476.DuPont De Nemours,474,530,533.D'Alibard,474.Dr. Barbeu Dubourg,474,530,533.Relations to French women,477.Franklin's residence at Passy,479.LeRay de Chaumont,479.LeRay de Chaumont, the younger,481.DeChaumont's family,482.Madame Foucault,482.Her kiss,482.Madame Chaumont, her comments on supposed attack of John Paul Jones on an old woman,482.Her comment on the engagement of Mlle. Passy to the Marquis de Tonnerre,483.Franklin's witty letter to the mother of this girl,483.Franklin's mode of life at Paris,483.His salary,484.His letter to John Adams about American criticism on his mode of life,484.His hospitality at Passy,485.Dinners mentioned by Miss Adams,485.Story of the Abbé Raynal and American degeneracy,485.Letter from John Quincy Adams to Franklin,486.Franklin's visiting list,486.Entertainments attended by Franklin,486.Madame Helvétius,487.Madame Brillon,487,500.Comtesse D'Houdetot,487,522.Fête Champêtre,523.Jean Georges Cabanis,488.Abbé Morellet,488.Abbé de la Roche,488.Abbé Morellet's Very Humble Petition to Madame Helvétius from her Cats,488.Letter to the Abbé de la Roche from Franklin with regard to Madame Helvétius,489.The Journey to the Elysian Fields,489.Letters from Franklin to Cabanis,491.Description of Madame Helvétius by Abigail Adams,492.Comment by Miss Adams on Madame Helvétius,493.The Abbés,496.Feeling letters from Abbé Morellet to Franklin,497,498.The Abbé Morellet's drinking song,498.The Abbé Morellet's observations on good rum,499.Franklin's drinking song,499.Essay on the Morals of Chess,516.Madame Jean Baptiste Le Roy,526.Jean Baptiste Le Roy,527.Pierre Le Roy,528.Charles Le Roy,528.David Le Roy,528.Madame Lavoisier,528.Madame de Forbach,528.