Eulogium on Benjamin Franklin : L.L.D. president of the American philosophical society ... fellow of the Royal Society of London, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris ... and of many other literary societies in Europe and America; late minister plenipotentiary for the United States of America at the court of Paris, sometime president, and for more than half a century a revered citizen, of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Delivered March 1, 1791, in the German Lutheran church of the city of Philadelphia, before the American Philosophical Society, and agreeably to their appointment/

Name:

Smith, William, 1727-1803

Date:

1792

Language:

English

Provenance:

Collinson, Charles Streynsham (bookplate) (RBC copy 2); Pepper, William (bookplate) (RBC copy 2); Pepper, William, 1874-1947 (donor) (RBC copy 2); Rosengarten, Joseph G. (donor) (RBC copy 1)

Publisher:

Printed by Benjamin Franklin Bache, Philadelphia

Subject:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 40, v pages, 3 unnumbered pages; 23 cm (8vo)

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

"The memory of the deceased was honored also, at the delivery of this eulogium, with the presence of the president, Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the corporation, and most of the public bodies, as well as respectable citizens, of Philadelphia."--Title page.; "Appendix. Some papers [by Franklin] referred to in the foregoing eulogium"--Page i-v (3rd count).; Errata: p. [4] (first count).; Signatures: [A]² B-F⁴ [G]⁴; Copy 2 bound with Smith, William. An exercise performed at the public commencement, in the College of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 1790.; Imperfect: cop. 2, p. [2]-[3] (4th count) wanting.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, E302.6.F8 S65; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, E302.6.F8 S65; University Archives, University Archives, UPT2 F831S

Collection:

Penn in the Age of Franklin (University of Pennsylvania)