Franklin’s Wit & Folly. The Bagatelles

Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
Franklin's Letter to Mme. Brillon (April 8, 1784)
Dialogue Between Franklin and the Gout
The Whistle
The Ephemera
The Elysian Fields
The Elysian Fields
Bilked for Breakfast
Letter to the Royal Academy
A Tale
Parable Against Persecution
Information to Those Who Would Remove to America
Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America
The Handsome and the Deformed Leg
The Morals of Chess
Other Morals of Chess
Supplementary Bagatelles
Note on the Supplementary Bagatelles
Two Extra Commandments
An Humble Petition, Presented to Mme Helvétius by her Cats
To the Abbé de la Roche, at Auteuil
Letter from Franklin to the Abbé More
Appendix A, The Provenance of the Mason Copy of the Bagatelles
Appendix B, Textual Notes
Appendix C, The Passy Press Types
Appendix D, Franklin's Friends and Acquaintances
Bibliography
Index