Benjamin Franklin's letters to Madame Helvétius and Madame La Freté
By: with an explanatory note by Luther S. Livingston.
Contributors: Livingston, Luther Samuel, 1864-1914.; Helvétius, Anne-Catherine, 1719?-1800.; La Freté, Madame; Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952.; Livingston, Flora Virginia Milner, 1862- donor.; Harvard University. Press,; Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress)
Series: The Livingston reprints
Publisher: [Printed at the Harvard University Press]
Published: 1924
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Correspondence; Helvétius, Anne-Catherine, 1719?-1800 -- Correspondence; La Freté, Madame -- Correspondence; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Relations with women
Genres: Correspondence.
Notes: LC copy: Gift, Mrs. Luther S. Livingston, Apr. 2, 1925.
In English and French.
"The text of [Livingston's] introduction, slighly revised, is reprinted with the permission of the Grolier Club from its volume on Franklin and his press at Passy, issued in 1914. Four of the pages were reproduced in that volume; the others appear here for the first time ... "-- Pref. note, signed G. P. W. [i.e. George Parker Winship].
"Bibliography of editions of the second letter to Madame Helvetius printed before the year 1825, compiled from the copies in the library of Mr. William S. Mason by Georg Edward": 4 p. at end.
"125 copies printed at the Harvard University Press."
Sewn in wrapper.