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Fabbroni, Giovanni Valentino Mattia (1752-1822)
Italian scientist; director of the Mint, Florence.
Papers, ca. 1770s-1875. In Italian, French, Latin, English. (ca. 8500 items).

Letters from, and drafts of letters to, scientists, artists, musicians, soldiers, political figures, court personages throughout Europe, especially Italy and France, not only on personal and social affairs, but also on agriculture, botany, geology, natural history, coinage, museum management, politics, weights and measures, current affairs. Also diaries, 1778-1780 (5 vols.), of a visit to England, with sketches of machines, locks, bridges, tools, etc., notes on persons, quotations from useful publications, descriptions of manufacturing processes.

Among the correspondents are:

• Giovanni Aldini
• Carlo Amoretti
• Jacques Laurent Anisson-Duperon
• Sir Joseph Banks
• Roger Joseph Boscovich
• Carlo Botta
• Luigi Gaspard Brugnatelli
• Jacques A. C. Charles
• Antoine Court de Gébelin
• Lorenz Crell
• Georges L. C. F. D. Cuvier
• Vicenzo Dandolo
• Jean Darcet
• Sir Humphry Davy
• Joseph Philippe François Deleuze
• Francesco Favi
• Felice Fontana
• Georg Forster
• Johann Reinhold Forster
• Giorgio Gallerio
• Stefano Gallini
• Henri Grégoire
• Gabriel Grimaldi
• Frederick Augustus Hervey, earl of Bristol and bishop of Derry
• Alexander von Humboldt
• Wilhelm von Humboldt
• Jan Ingenhousz
• Angelica Kauffmann
• Richard Kirwan
• Bernard G. E. de la Ville, comte de Lacépède
• Marquis de Lafayette
• Joseph-Jéréme le Français de Lalande
• François A. F. de La Roche-foucauld-Liancourt
• Mme Lavoisier
• Jean Hyacinthe Magellan
• Filippo Mazzei
• Thomas Penrose
• Jan Potocki
• Joseph Priestley
• Giuseppe Raddi
• Rudolph E. Raspe
• Luigi Sacco
• Giorgio Santi
• William Saunders
• Gaetano Savi
• James Smithson
• Daniel Solander
• Ottaviano Targioni-Tozzetti
• Abbé Alexandre H. Tessier
• Arsène Thiebaut
• Karl Peter Thunberg
• Antonio M. Vassalli-Eandi
• Giambattista Venturi
• Josiah Wedgwood
• John Whitehurst

Table of contents (51 pp.).

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Fawn Township (York County, Pa.)
A List of all Lands, Lots, Buildings, and Wharves . . . 1 October 1798. 15 pp.

An alphabetical listing of property owned or occupied in the First Assessment and Sixth Division of York County, Pa.

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Featherstonhaugh, George William (1780-1866)
Geologist, traveler. APS 1809.
Papers, 1809-1840. 17 items.

These are mostly copies from originals in possession of Mrs. Duane Featherstonhaugh, Duanesburg, N.Y. There are letters, chiefly relating to the APS, from Peter S. Du Ponceau, John Vaughan, and James Mease. There are a few original letters, one to Benjamin F. Peale.

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Featherstonhaugh, George William (1780-1866)
Papers, 1771-1856, n.d. Film. 10 reels.

These papers, which also include family material, are from originals at the Minnesota Historical Society.

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Feins, Claire K.
Doctor David Hosack at Hyde Park: a report for the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, at Hyde Park, N.Y. Film. 1 reel.

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Fenton, John F.
Philadelphia tradesman
Account books, 1829-1844. 2 vols. (289 pp.).

Beginning in about 1830, John F. Fenton began a thriving business as a wheelwright in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Ann Ring, also of Newtown, on November 26, 1834, and was elected a County Commissioner in the late 1850s.

These Day Books provide a detailed record of work performed by Fenton between 1830 and 1844, primarily the manufacture or repair of wagons and wheels (double trees, wagon tongues, sideboards, spokes, rims), with very occasional reference to carriages.

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Fenton, William Nelson (1908- )
Anthropologist, enthnologist.
Papers, ca. 1935-1980. ca. 22 ln. ft.

A Yale-educated ethnographer, William Fenton has devoted most of his career to study of the Iroquois Indians of New York State and Canada. Receiving his doctorate in 1937, Fenton worked with the Bureau of American Ethnology for a number of years before becoming Director of the New York State Museum and professor at SUNY Albany.

The Fenton Papers covers all aspects of William Fenton's professional life, documenting his varied positions as community worker for the New York Agency of the U.S. Indian Service, 1935-1937 (accounts, reports, correspondence); associate anthropologist and senior ethnologist in the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1939-1951 (includes notebooks, letters from the field); Executive Secretary of Anthropology and Psychology, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, 1952-1954; and Assistant Commissioner, New York State Museum and Science Service, 1954-1968.

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Ferguson, Elizabeth Graeme (1737-1801)
Writer.
Commonplace book, ca. 1780s. Film. 1 reel.

From original in the possession of Douglas C. Turnbull, Jr., 1967.

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Fermi, Enrico (1901-1954)
Physicist. APS 1939.
Letters to Enrico Perisco, 1918-1926. 28 items. Photocopy.

Several letters and postal cards on scientific and personal matters, with a long letter about Fermi's career from Adolfo Amidei to Emilio Segrè, 1958.

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Fields, Harold B.
The influence of Peter Muhlenberg in Virginia, 1772-1776. Film.

Master's thesis, University of Chicago, 1929.

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Filarete, Antonio (ca. 1400-1470)
Papers collected by Dr. Emil Kaufmann, ca. 1940s.

This material (photostats, typescripts of manuscripts, etc.) was collected by Kaufmann for his research on a book about Filarete. Included are photographs of Codex Marcianus, Venice.

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Fisher, Wallace E.
Historian
Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg's Knowledge and Practice of Medicine. 57 pp. Typescript. Gettysburg College, 1949.

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Fisher Family
Philadelphia. Lawyers, merchants
Papers, 1797-1825. ca. 200 items.

Letterbooks, letters, diary. The letterbook (1797-1806) of the lawyer Miers Fisher includes a daybook and other miscellaneous accounts. The letterbook (1819-1825) of Samuel Rowland Fisher details his merchant business in Philadelphia. His brother, Miers Fisher, Jr. (d. 1813) operated Miers Fisher & Co. in Russia. There is a diary of his voyage there, "Remarks on my voyage to the North of Europe" (1809-1810), which includes five pages of meteorological observations. In addition there are about 200 letters written to his father from Russia and Spain, 1808-1813. A few of the letters were published in The United States and Russia: The Beginning of Relations 1765 1815. eds. Nina Bashkins, David F. Trask, et al., 1980. A portrait of Miers Fisher Jr. appears on p. 626.

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Fitzpatrick, Franklin E.
Irish immigration into New York from 1860 to 1880. Film.

Doctoral dissertation, Catholic University of America, 1948.

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Fitzroy, Robert (1805-1865)
Hydrographer, meteorologist.
Papers, ca. 1843-1865. Film. 1 reel.

Letters from Admiral C. R. Moorson, correspondence with James Ross and Edward Sabine concerning polar exploration, and other scientific correspondence. Filmed from originals in the British Meteorological Archives, Bracknell, Berkshire, England.

Table of contents (5 pp.).

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Flaugergues, Honoré (1755-1835)
Astronomer.
L'Explication de l'arc-en-ciel, 1786. 1 vol. (122 pp.).

This manuscript, in French, was presented to the Société Royale des Sciences de Montpellier, and endorsed as being received by them on Oct. 8, 1786, for a prize in physics which it was sponsoring on the question if the Newtonian explanation of rainbows was incontestable. Flaugergues's presentation won the prize. Included are numerous geometrical and other types of sketches.

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Fleuriais, Georges-Ernest (1840-1895)
Passage de Venus 1882 -- Mission de Santa Cruz (Patagonie) Photograph album, 1882. 31 photographs. (0.25 lin. ft.).

The French Académie des Sciences organized a total of ten expeditions to observe the transit of Venus in 1882, including parties that set up in Haiti, Martinique, Mexico, Florida, Chile, and Cape Horn. The expedition to Santa Cruz on the Patagonian (Argentine) coast was led by the naval officer Georges-Ernest Fleuriais, director of the Cartography Department of the French Navy. Aboard the ship Volage, Fleuriais sailed to Argentina and made observations of the transit just before Venus passed its ascending node on December 6, 1882.

The 31 albumen photographs bound into the album titled "Passage de Venus 1882 -- Mission de Santa Cruz (Patagonie)" document a French astronomical expedition of that year to the Argentine coast. Rather than photographs of the transit itself, the album contains images of the members of the expedition, the crew of the Volage, and the base camp. Only a few images contain captions (written in pencil on the mount).

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Flexner, Abraham (1866-1959)
Educator.
The reminiscences of Abraham Flexner. Microfiche. 1 card.

From Columbia University Oral History Research Office, 1959.

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Flexner, Simon (1863-1946)
Physician, pathologist, administrator. APS 1901.
Papers, 1891-1946. ca. 175,000 items. (163 ln. ft.).

Simon Flexner, born in 1863, one of the nation's leading experts in pathology and bacteriology, was most renowned for his research on cerebrospinal meningitis, polio and infantile paralysis. Arguably though, Flexner's stewardship of the Rockefeller Institute was his greatest contribution to medical and scientific research. His rise in the medical community began in the late nineteenth century in Louisville, Kentucky, where despite not having completed even the seventh grade, Flexner taught himself basic bacteriology by conducting experiments at home using a microscope borrowed from the pharmacy where he served as an apprentice. Granted a medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1889, he went on to a pathology fellowship at the newly opened John Hopkins School of Medicine. Within two short years of leaving Louisville, Flexner received an assistant of pathology appointment at Johns Hopkins. It was a quick ascent and the beginning of a long and brilliant career that included a prestigious appointment at the University of Pennsylvania and then a directorship at the new Rockefeller Institute where he realized his lifelong dream of creating a dynamic and productive research laboratory. The Rockefeller Institute became instantly famous worldwide as the preeminent research facility for virology and under Flexner's direction produced invaluable contributions in pathology, bacteriology, and immunology.

This collection does not reflect the early phases of Flexner's career at Johns Hopkins but does document an early interest in meningitis and other infectious diseases with science-related correspondence, laboratory notebooks, and administrative correspondence with the New York City and State Departments of Health. There is abundant material on Flexner's directorship of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, including Flexner's search for staff, an involved process which is detailed in correspondence with the scientists, many of whom became quite famous. Also included is material relating to the other institutions and Rockefeller philanthropies with which Flexner was involved. (Among the most significant correspondence, however, may be that which documents the support of the General Education Board and the Rockefeller Foundation in the development and subsequent reorganization of medical schools following brother Abraham Flexner's scathing report on medical education in the United States and Canada). This collection would be of great interest to anyone interested in the history of bacteriology, histology, and immunology or the general history of modern medicine and philanthropy.

Described in Margaret Miller, A Guide to Selected Files of The Professional Papers of Simon Flexner at the American Philosophical Society Library (APS, 1979).

Also described in Lily Kay, Molecules , Cells, and Life

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Flinders, Matthew (1774-1814)
British explorer, hydrographer.
Collection, ca. 3500 items.

This is a collection of material on Flinders compiled by James Decker Mack for his biography of Flinders (Melbourne, Australia, 1966). There are notes, transcriptions of documents, photocopies, and microfilm.

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Fogelson, Raymond David (1933- )
Anthropologist
North Carolina Cherokee folklore, ca. 1958. Recording. 13 reels.

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Fogelson, Raymond David (1933- )
Cherokee formulae, 1960. Recording. 3 reels.

Sacred formulae dealing with the ball game, portions of the ball dance, and other dances.

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Foreman, Richard and J. W. Mahony
The Cherokee physician or Indian guide to health, Ash[e]ville, N. C., 1849. Film. 1 reel.

From a copy at the University of North Carolina.

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Fort Augusta, Pennsylvania. Quartermaster
Account books, 1753-1765. 8 vols.

Record of personal expenses, 1753-1765, including entries made at Harris's Ferry, 1760, and at Fort Augusta, 1761-1763 (1 vol.); ledgers, 1757-1764, with lists of soldiers with payments for wages (4 vols.); record of rations issued to Mr. Hunter's mess, Colonel Burd's company, and Mr. Graydon's mess, 1761-1763 (1 vol.); day books, 1762-1763 (2 vols.). All the volumes contain records of purchases of beef, venison, bread, corn, sugar, rum, butter, salt, etc.; of payments for washing, tobacco, playing cards, tea, lemons, thread, combs; and for purchases of medicines, shoes, clothing, etc. Probably originally among the Burd and Burd- Shippen papers.

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Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania. Quartermaster
Cash book, July 10-December 10, 1760. 1 vol. (11 pp.).

Receipts of payments by Horatio Gates, Robert Monckton, Sir John St. Clair, and others; expenditures for oats, candles, hire of horses and drivers, tobacco, rum, express riders, etc.

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Fostick, F. G.(?)
Botanical sketch book, ca.1882. 1 vol. (79 p., 98 watecolors)

Watercolor sketches of English flowers and cryptogams, arranged systematically and identified by scientific and common names.

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Fothergill, Anthony (1732?-1813)
English physician. APS 1792.
Letterbook, 1789-1813. 1 vol. (258 pp.).

Fothergill writes to an English physician, J. Woodforde, from Bath, England, as well as from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1809-1813). The letters concern their common interests in medicine, with comments on current events, American and Philadelphia society and medicine.

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Fothergill, John (1712-1780)
English Quaker physician and naturalist. APS 1770.
Letters to Charles Alston, 1737-1750. 15 items. Photocopy.

Letters to the professor of botany at Edinburgh University of medicine, botany, and science in general. From the originals in Edinburgh University Library.

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Fougeroux de Bondaroy, Auguste Denis (1732-1789)
French archaeologist, physiologist.
Journals and notebooks, ca. 1763-1789. 5 vols.

These journals include a trip to Rome, ca. 1763 (609 pp.), which includes descriptions of buildings, of a wire making factory, etc. There is a journal of a trip from Rome to Naples, ca. 1763 (ca. 540 pp.), which includes sketches, floorplans, and building elevations of Naples, as well as a description of old instruments, including sketches of them. Also, there is a minute book (it includes miscellaneous sketches) from l'Académie Royale des Sciences (Jan. 7, 1786-Dec. 19, 1789). A fourth volume includes a catalog of the library of Fougeroux de Bondaroy (379 pp.), and the fifth volume is the Catalogue des arbres et arbustes de pleine terre et d'orangerie, 1786 (ca. 400 pp.).

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Fougeroux de Bondaroy, Auguste Denis (1732-1789)
Recherches sur les ruines d'Herculaneum (Paris, 1770). 1 vol. (232 pp.).

Author's copy of his printed work, with manuscript notes in the margins, and with extra pages of manuscript notes tipped in.

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Foulke, William Parker (1816-1865)
Philadelphia lawyer, philanthropist. APS 1854
Papers, ca. 1840-1865. ca. 3000 items, photographs.

Correspondence and personal papers of William Parker Foulke, including copies of letters by him. A man of many interests, Foulke was concerned with prison reform and prison architecture, the archaeology and geology of Pennsylvania, the colonization of West Africa for settlement of ex-slaves, and arctic exploration. He was also a firm supporter and member of numerous professional and cultural organizations in Philadelphia. There are numerous lectures delivered by him; material on the Lancaster County Prison, New York Prison Association, and the Philadelphia Prison Society; notebooks concerning prisons and prisoners, including a 1846-1852 diary, and a listing of prisoners, their race, age, crime, sentence, and observations; a diary concerning the American Colonization Society (1852); a copy of an arctic diary (1853-1854) by John Wall Wilson, in the hand of Isaac Israel Hayes, which recounts much of the journey aboard the brig Advance, commanded by Elisha Kent Kane. There is material on the Philadelphia Society For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, a list of buildings (1820-1841) designed by John Haviland, and material on the American Academy of Music, Philadelphia.

Table of contents (9 pp.).

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Fowler, Henry Weed (1878-1965)
Icthyologist
Reminiscences on old naturalists, 1959. Recording. 1 reel.

A recording of Fowler's remembrances of Philadelphia naturalists who were affiliated with the Academy of Natural Sciences, where Fowler worked. He remembers, particularly, Edward D. Cope and Samuel Rhoads.

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Charles Pemberton Fox Family
Legal papers, 1686-1881. ca. 200 items.

About 100 deeds to properties in or near Philadelphia and in Luzerne County, Pa., between Charles P., George, Joseph, and Samuel M. Fox, and other members of the family on the one hand, and Mary Ball, Edward Shippen Burd, George Clymer, Gavin Hamilton, Henry Hill, John Lukens, Samuel Micklé, Israel Pemberton, Samuel Pleasants, Samuel Rhoads, Jr., Robert Strettell, William Wallace, Nicholas Waln, and others on the other hand. Also mortgages, leases, and correspondence relating to these properties (31 pieces); letters to Dr. George Fox, 1792-1798, from Gouverneur Morris, Robert Morris, N. Cantwell Jones, Thomas Eddy, and others; and from William Constable and Sir Robert Herries & Co. (17 pieces) relating to investments of William Temple Franklin. Table of contents (5 pp.).

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Fox, George (1759-1828)
Philadelphia physician and man of affairs. APS 1784
Letter book, 1786-1797. 1 vol (176 pp.).

Principally business correspondence with his friend William Temple Franklin or about Franklin's lands and investments in America. Other correspondents include:

• Robert Barclay
• William Constable
• William Cooper
• Edward Hand
• Thomas Hartley
• Sir Robert Herries & Co.
• Jesse Higgins
• N. Cantwell Jones
• John Kelly
• Robert Millegan
• Gouverneur Morris
• Matthew Pearce
• George Read
• Cornelius Schenk
• John Williamson

Fox Family
Papers, ca. 1690-1915. 2 linear feet.

The collection contains information on Fox family speculation in western lands, two manuscript maps from the 1790's and 1830's depicting the family's holdings in northwestern Pennsylvania, and a photograph album from the 1890's documenting Chestnutwold, the Fox estate adjacent to Andalusia. Chief correspondents are Samuel and George Fox. The papers came to the APS along with a collection of 200 books belonging to Samuel and George.

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Fox, Robert B.
Anthropologist
A report on the ethnobotany of the Polillo Dumagat; Manila, 1949. 40 pp. Typescript.

Study of the Dumagat ethnic group of the Philippine Islands, and their use of plants.

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Fraenkel, Gerd
Winnebago texts, ca. 1959. Recording. 14 reels.

Copies of tapes and cylinders in the Archives of the World at Indiana University.

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Frankenstein, Gustavus
Mathematical treaties, ca. 1879. 62 pp.

These concern his work on magic reciprocals and the principal of reciprocal identity, as a mathematical and philosophical explanation of the nature of the universe.

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Franklin, Ann and James Franklin, Jr.
Printers, Newport, R.I.
Accounts, 1750-1763. Film. 1 reel.

Includes ledgers (1750-1763), daybook (1758-1761), and James Franklin's estate papers.

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Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)
Printer, scientist, politician, diplomat, philosopher. APS 1743.
Papers, 1710-1938. ca.70 linear feet.

The principal founder, first secretary, and long-time president of the American Philosophical Society, Benjamin Franklin was at turns a scientist, inventor, pamphleteer, printer, politician, and diplomat, and above all he was early America's most energetic institution builder.

In 1840, the APS began to accumulate what has become a vast quantity of manuscript materials pertaining to its founder. Arranged into over a dozen collections reflecting the complex history of custodial care, these now comprise almost 60% of Franklin's surviving papers, documenting nearly every aspect of his life. His public and private correspondence as a representative to the Crown for the colony of Pennsylvania and as minister to France during and after the American Revolution is joined by a wealth of material relating to his work as a printer, scientist, and philanthropist, his correspondence with family and friends, and a quantity of bills and receipts, account books, shop books, diaries, post office records, calling cards, memoranda and notes, and reports of every description.

The largest collections include the Franklin Papers, per se (donated by Charles Pemberton Fox and Mary Fox in 1840 and calendared by I. Minis Hays in 1908), and the Franklin-Bache Papers, donated in 1936. The Library also houses a number of miscellaneous Franklin collections, including his correspondence with Richard Jackson, Catharine Ray Greene, Mary Stevenson Hewson, Jane Mecom, and Mme Brillon, as well as a number of collections relating to his relatives, descendants, and peers.

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Franklin-Bache
Papers, 1707-1799. 4 lin. feet

Containing over 4 linear feet of letters and documents, the Franklin-Bache Papers comprises the second largest collection of letters and documents relating to Benjamin Franklin in the APS Library. Although the scope of the collection is broad, including materials from the time of Franklin's arrival in Philadelphia to his death, the heart of the collection documents the period of Franklin's ministry in France (1776-1785) and his diplomatic efforts to win financial and military support for the revolutionary cause, as well as less intensive coverage of his ministry in England before the Revolution.

Franklin's correspondence with American and French officials, financiers (personal and otherwise), and savants provides tantalizing details on the social context of Franklin's ministry in France, his intellectual life, and his growing celebrity. Much of the correspondence documents the efforts to convince French officials early in the war to support the American cause, but there is valuable material relating to the peace negotiations as well. The collection is equally rich in personal correspondence, including a rich set of letters from Mary Stevenson Hewson, Georgiana Shipley, Catherine Ray Greene, Jane Mecom, Deborah Franklin, and a number of Franklin's other relatives. The collection is arranged chronologically.

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Friends of Benjamin Franklin House
Papers, 1976-1983. ca. 500 items.

Letters between Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., Lady Bessborough, and others, concerning the legal formation of the Friends, preservation of the Craven Street house in London, and articles of incorporation and meeting agenda. A separate, but related item is a 1983 restoration guide written by Nancy Locke Doonan, Benjamin Franklin's London milieu: a guide for the restoration of Craven Street, London (285 pp., illus., maps).

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Franklin, James, Jr. (ca. 1730-1762)
Printer of Newport, R.I.
Accounts, 1753-1762. Film. 1 reel.

From Newport Historical Society. Includes a book of accounts with customers, a day book, miscellaneous bills and receipts of himself and his estates.

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Franklin, William (1731?-1813)
Governor of New Jersey. APS 1768.
Papers, 1760-1813. 31 items.

The only son of Benjamin Franklin, William Franklin served as Royal Governor of New Jersey during the critical years between 1762 and 1776. An ardent Loyalist, William split with his father over their political differences in the early days of the Revolution, and after enduring two years of imprisonment, became a leader in the Loyalist cause. He settled in London in 1782, where he worked as an agent for Loyalist claims.

The William Franklin Papers are a miscellaneous assemblage of letters and documents, dealing largely with Franklin's years as Royal Governor of New Jersey. The majority of the letters are perfunctory, however they provide some information on Franklin's land holdings in New Jersey and the Ohio country. The collection includes two letters relating to Franklin's imprisonment in Connecticut during the Revolution, two affectionate letters to his sister Sarah, and one to his son William Temple Franklin.

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Franklin, William (1731?-1813)
Letters. Film.

From Yale University Library. Principally to Sarah Franklin Bache, Joseph Galloway, and William Strahan.

Table of contents (1 p.).

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Franklin, William Temple (1760-1823)
Secretary of Benjamin Franklin. APS 1786.
Papers, 1775-1819. 4.5 linear feet

The son of William Franklin, Royal Governor of New Jersey, William Temple Franklin worked as aide to his grandfather, Benjamin Franklin, when the latter served as minister to France during the American Revolution. A bonvivant, Temple received his highest public appointment as Secretary to the American delegation at the Treaty of Versailles in 1782-1783, largely through the influence of his famous grandfather, but never again attained a significant post. As Franklin's literary heir, he edited and published a three volume set of his grandfather's writings in 1817.

The William Temple Franklin Papers provides a richly detailed portrait of the life of the grandson of Benjamin Franklin, and consists largely of letters received during the years that Temple served as his grandfather's aide in France, 1776-1785. Although much of the correspondence is routine, during this period, Temple received regular reports from friends and diplomatic colleagues relaying information on the American Revolution, the course of diplomatic and peace negotiations, and French public opinion on Benjamin Franklin and the new United States. The collection is also a rich resource for information on the personal lives of the Franklins, including interesting correspondence from Temple's relatives William Franklin, Elizabeth Franklin, Sarah Franklin Bache, and Jonathan Williams, and his mistress Blanchette Caillot.

The letters are calendared in I. Minis Hays, ed., Calendar of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin in the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia, 1908).

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Franklin, William Temple (1760-1823)
Secretary of Benjamin Franklin. APS 1786.

Diary, 1785. 122 pp.

1785 diary containing notes written by William Temple Franklin. Written in the 1785 edition of Almanach des Rendez-Vous, printed in Paris.

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Appointment books and diaries, 1785-1803. 116 pp. Photocopy, typescript.

These are transcripts of original documents and letters (for the 1785 diary see above), from various libraries. There is extensive annotation by Claude-Anne Lopez.

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William Temple Franklin-Charles Pemberton Fox
Legal Records, 1692-1881. 2 lin. feet

Associates of Benjamin Franklin and his grandson William Temple Franklin, the Fox family of Philadelphia were holders of considerable property in Philadelphia during the eighteenth century and speculated extensively in lands in the northern and western parts of the state. The son of Dr. George Fox, Charles Pemberton Fox inherited the estate Champlost at which the papers of Benjamin Franklin were left in 1790. He donated the collection to the American Philosophical Society in 1840.

The legal records that comprise the William Temple Frankln-Charles Pemberton Fox collection relate to real property held by members of the Fox family and to the land holdings and financial interests of George Fox's close friend, William Temple Franklin. The collection includes about 100 deeds for properties in or near Philadelphia and in Luzerne County, Pa., along with a small quantity (about 31 items) of miscellaneous correspondence addressed to George Fox by Gouverneur Morris, Robert Morris, N. Cantwell Jones, Thomas Eddy, and others; and from William Constable and Sir Robert Herries and Co. (17 pieces) relating to the investments of William Temple Franklin.

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William Temple Franklin-George Fox
Collection, 1791-1800. 0.25 lin. feet

After William Temple Franklin returned to Europe in 1792, he left oversight of his financial interests in America in the hands of his intimate friend and fellow land speculator, George Fox. A physician and member of the American Philosophical Society, Fox also took possession of the remainder of Benjamin Franklin's papers, which eventually passed through his son, Charles Pemberton Fox, to the APS.

The Franklin-Fox Collection contains 98 items, consisting mostly of letters from William Temple Franklin to George Fox regarding land holdings and finances, and retained copies of Fox's letters to Franklin. The correspondence is fairly relentlessly focused on business matters and rarely contains personal comments, however there are occasional requests for books and two reference to the yellow fever epidemic of 1798 and the death of Benjamin Franklin Bache.

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Franklin Institute. Philadelphia
Committee on Science and the Arts, 1824-1900. Film & guide. 28 reels.

Report book, minute books, committee records, membership rolls, correspondence, etc. For the published guide by Scholarly Resources, see A. Michael McMahon and Stephanie A. Morris, eds., Technology in Industrial America. Records of the Committee on Science... (Wilmington, Del., 1977).

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Fraser, Thomas E.
Journal, 1880-1887. Film. 1 reel.

This journal documents the construction of the Lick Observatory building on Mt. Hamilton. It is a continuous record from 16 June 1880 to 30 Oct. 1887. Enclosed also is a memoir, Rough Record of Circumstances &c on Mt. Hamilton During the Construction of the Lick Observatory, 15 Nov. 1880 (8 pp.); and pay lists for workmen, 1880 81.

From originals at the Lick Observatory.

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Frazer, John Fries (1812-1872)
Philadelphia scientist, teacher, editor. APS 1842.
Papers, 1834-1871. ca. 650 items.

Correspondence with Alexander Dallas Bache, Louis Agassiz, Joseph Henry, and Titian R. Peale on general scientific topics although with Bache personal and family matters were discussed.

Other correspondents include:

• John Henry Alexander
• George Allen
• Frederick A. P. Barnard
• James Curtis Booth
• Alexis Caswell
• George Davidson
• William H. Emory
• Frederick Fraley
• Wolcott Gibbs
• Benjamin Apthorp Gould
• Arnold H. Guyot
• Samuel S. Haldeman
• Isaac I. Hayes
• John L. Le Conte
• Charles D. Meigs
• Samuel G. Morton
• Benjamin Peirce
• William B. Reed
• Solomon W. Roberts
• Henry D. Rogers
• Lewis M. Rutherford
• Charles F. Schaeffer
• Charles M. Wetherill

Topics discussed in the letters include: University of Pennsylvania, boiler explosions, education, National Academy of Sciences, the Smithsonian Institution, fossils, magnetism, solar eclipses, APS, weights and measures. Coast and Geodetic Survey, scientific instruments, American Civil War, electricity, United States Mint, Franklin Institute, scientists of the period, natural history, publications, etc.

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Frazer, Persifor (1844-1909)
Geologist, mineralogist. APS 1872.
Papers, 1884. 150 items.

Correspondence, principally from British scientists, on the 1884 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in Philadelphia. Table of contents (4 pp.).

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Frazer, Robert
Philadelphia lawyer
Papers, 1814. 18 items, including 2 maps.

Letters to Thomas Clarke, Isaac Roberdeau, and Jonathan Williams, Jr., about the defense of Philadelphia against possible British attack.

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Freehauff, Daniel
Astronomer of Allentown, Pa.
Astronomical calculations, 1778 and 1779. 2 vols. (ca. 317 pp.).

Calculations of eclipses of the sun, June 24, 1778, and of the moon, May 29, 1779, adjusted to the meridian of Philadelphia; with drawings. Also a duplicate, incomplete, of the calculations for the sun, and a duplicate of the calculations for the moon. An apparently personal reference in the text suggests that Freehauff was a native of Germany.

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Freeman, Thomas (d. 1821)
Civil engineer, astronomer.

Red River in Louisiana drawn up from the returns of Messrs. Freeman and Custis to the War Office of the United States, who explored the same, in the year 1806. Film. 1 reel.

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Freemasonry in France
Collection. ca. 130 items and 1 reel of film.

Photocopy, photographs, and one reel of microfilm (#1340), collected by Beatrice F. Hyslop for a study of the history of freemasonry. Included are eighteenth-century copies of documents in the Bibliothèque Nationale, note cards, and 1950s correspondence with French librarians and researchers.

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Furness, Horace Howard (1833-1912)
Lawyer, Shakespeare scholar. APS 1880.
Scrapbook. Film. 1 reel.

This volume contains newspaper clippings and other memorabilia, primarily of H. H., but also of William Henry Furness. There are letters from C. H. Hail, B. Quaritch, A. G. Rosengarten, and M. Carey Thomas.

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