| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Benjamin Franklin & Polly Baker: the history of a literary deception
| | | | Creator: | Hall, Max. | | | | | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | | | | Publication: | Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill,[1960] | | | | Notes: | The appendix includes the text of the earliest known printing of "The speech of Miss Polly Baker" as issued in the General advertiser in London on Apr. 15, 1747, with the verbal variations found in 9 other selected texts. Bibliography: p. 168-184. | | | | Call #: | PN171 F7B16H | | | | Extent: | xi, 193 p. : port., facsims. ; 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790 | Baker, Polly (Literary hoax)
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