. The life of Benjamin Franklin : containing the Autobiography, with notes and a continuation . ssy to ^r- Hopkinson was the first of the kind3June, 1779. made in France. A variety of others havebeen made since of different sizes; some to be set in thelids of snuffboxes, and some so small as to be worn in rings ;and the numbers sold are incredible. These, with thepictures, busts, and prints, (of which copies upon copies arespread everywhere,) have made your fathers face as wellknown as that of the moon, so that he durst not do anything that would oblige him to run away, as his phiz woulddiscov
. The life of Benjamin Franklin : containing the Autobiography, with notes and a continuation . ssy to ^r- Hopkinson was the first of the kind3June, 1779. made in France. A variety of others havebeen made since of different sizes; some to be set in thelids of snuffboxes, and some so small as to be worn in rings ;and the numbers sold are incredible. These, with thepictures, busts, and prints, (of which copies upon copies arespread everywhere,) have made your fathers face as wellknown as that of the moon, so that he durst not do anything that would oblige him to run away, as his phiz woulddiscover him wherever he should venture to show it. It issaid by learned etymologists, that the name do//, for theimages children play with, is derived from the word the number of dol/s now made of him, he may betruly said, in that sense, to be i-do/l-ized in this country. I think you did right to stay out of town till the summerwas over, for the sake of your childs health. I hope you H rt P> 3o P •< 3m 5 3 P 3 rr p 3 p CL P I o 3**-•Ml (» d ow o >d OH. *\; . ™ff ■ ... &T. 73] WILLIAM TEMPLE PRANK LIN. 481 will get out again this summer, during the hot months; forI begin to love the dear little creature from your descriptionof her. I was charmed with the account you gave me of yourindustry, the tablecloths of your own spinning, &c; butthe latter part of the paragraph, that you had sent for linenfrom France because weaving and flax were grown dear,alas, that dissolved the charm ; and your sending for longblack pins, and lace, and feathers / disgusted me as muchas if you had put salt into my strawberries. The spinning,I see, is laid aside, and you are to be dressed for the ball !You seem not to know, my dear daughter, that, of all thedear things in this world, idleness is the dearest, exceptmischief. The project you mention, of removing Temple from me,was an unkind one. To deprive an old man, sent to servehis country in a foreign one, of the comfort of a chi
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