Book II: Part I
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Parrington, Vernon Louis
I. Colonial Backgrounds: See Herbert L. Osgood, The American Colonies in the Eighteenth Century (2 vols., New York, 1924).
New Stock: See John R. Commons, Races and Immigrants in America (New York, 1902, 1920). F. R. Diffenderfer, The German Immigrants into Pennsylvania ... (New York, 1900). The Diary of John Harrower (Amer. Hist. Review, Vol. VI, p. 65).
The Frontier—Lubberland: The Journal of Sarah Kemble Knight (New York, 1825; Albany, 1865; Norwich, Conn., 1901).
William Byrd: Westover Manuscripts: containing the History of the Dividing Line ... A Journey to the Land of Eden ... (Petersburg, Va., 1841); reissued under title, The History of the Dividing Line (edited by T. H. Wynne; 2 vols., Richmond, 1866). Also The Writings of “Colonel William Byrd of Westover in Virginia, Esq.” Edited by J. S. Bassett (New York, 1901).
The Frontier—Land of Promise: Letters from an American Farmer ... (London, 1782; with note by W. P. Trent and introduction by Ludwig Lewisohn, New York, 1904). More “Letters from an American Farmer,” edited with introductions by H. L. Bourdin, R. G. Gabriel, and S. T. Williams, and issued under the title, Sketches of Eighteenth Century America (New Haven, 1925).
For the life of Crèvecœur, see Julia Post Mitchell, St. Jean de Crèvecœur (Col. Univ. Studies in English and Comp. Lit., New York, 1916).
II. Jonathan Edwards: Works (8 vols., Leeds, 1806–11). Works, edited by S. E. Dwight (10 vols., New York, 1829, 1830). Works (10 vols., Edinburgh, 1847). Numerous other editions and many reprints.
The best life is by V. G. Allen, Jonathan Edwards (Boston, 1889, 1890; with bibliography). See also Woodbridge Riley, American Thought (New York, 1915).
III. Benjamin Franklin: The best edition of his works is that edited by J. Bigelow (10 vols., New York, 1889). The Autobiography was first printed complete by J. Bigelow, New York, 1874. The latest reprint is in the American Authors Series, edited with introduction by Percy H. Boynton (New York, 1926).
Of the several lives, see James Parton, Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (2 vols., New York, 1864); J. B. McMaster, Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Letters (Boston, 1887); J. T. Morse, Benjamin Franklin (American Statesmen Series, Boston, 1889). See also W. A. Wetzel, Benjamin Franklin as an Economist (Johns Hopkins Studies in Hist. and Pol. Science, Thirteenth Series, Vol. IX, pp. 421–476). A recent life: Phillips Russell, Benjamin Franklin: The First Civilized American (New York, 1926).