the Age of Reason: when I return to America we will settle for that
matter.

"As Doctor Franklin has been my intimate friend for thirty years past
you will naturally see the reason of my continuing the connection
with his grandson. I printed here (Paris) about fifteen thousand of
the second part of the Age of Reason, which I sent to Mr. F[ranklin]
Bache. I gave him notice of it in September 1795 and the copy-right
by my own direction was entered by him. The books did not arrive till
April following, but he had advertised it long before.

"I sent to him in August last a manuscript letter of about 70 pages,
from me to Mr. Washington to be printed in a pamphlet. Mr. Barnes of
Philadelphia carried the letter from me over to London to be
forwarded to America. It went by the ship Hope, Cap: Harley, who
since his return from America told me that he put it into the post
office at New York for Bache. I have yet no certain account of its
publication. I mention this that the letter may be enquired after, in
case it has not been published or has not arrived to Mr. Bache.
Barnes wrote to me, from London 29 August informing me that he was
offered three hundred pounds sterling for the manuscript. The offer
was refused because it was my intention it should not appear till it
appeared in America, as that, and not England was the place for its
operation.

"You ask me by your letter to Mr. Caritat for a list of my several
works, in order to publish a collection of them. This is an
undertaking I have always reserved for myself. It not only belongs to
me of right, but nobody but myself can do it; and as every author is
accountable (at least in reputation) for his works, he only is the