Indexed works
Works about or by Benjamin Franklin. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
Charles Phillips Russell papers, 1861-1974.
Russell, Phillips, 1884-1974 · 1861
Phillips Russell (1884-1974) taught journalism at the University of North Carolina and wrote biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Paul Jones. His papers, 7,800 items in fourteen linear feet covering 1861 to 1974, are part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4004. Topics include his publishers, his teaching, the writer Lucy Phillips Russell, and colleagues such as Henry Horace Williams and John Ehle.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
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