ILLUSTRATIONS 



Miniature of Fil^NKLIN Frontispiece. 



Painted by Joseph-Siffrein Duplessis, at Passy, 

 about the year 1782. 



Portrait of Franklin .... Facing Page 31. 



Painted by Benjamin Wilson in London in 1759. 



The history of this portrait is explained in the fol- 

 lowing correspondence which was read by Hon. 

 Joseph H. Choate, on April 20, at the American 

 Academy of Music, when the portrait was first shown 

 after its return to this country. 



Government House, 



Ottawa, February 7, 1906. 



My Dear Mr. President: — The fortune of war 

 and the accident of inheritance have made me the 

 owner of the portrait of Franklin, which Major 

 Andre took out of his house in Philadelphia and gave 

 to his Commanding Officer, my great-grandfather. 

 General Sir Charles Grey. This portrait, which 

 Franklin stated was " allowed by those who have 

 seen it to have great merit as a picture in every re- 

 spect," has for over a century occupied the chief 

 place of honor on the walls of my Northumbrian 



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