Potamian, Brother, and Walsh, J. J. _Makers of Electricity._ New York: 1909. ("Franklin and Some Contemporaries," chapter II, pp. 68-132, by Brother Potamian, is an excellent survey of Franklin's contributions to the science of electricity.)
Powell, E. P. "A Study of Benjamin Franklin," _Arena_, VIII, 477-91 (Sept., 1893). (Fair survey of Franklin as a diplomatist.)
Priestley, J. _The History and Present State of Electricity, with Original Experiments._ London: 1767. (Many notes observing Franklin's "truly philosophical greatness of mind." Preface contains suggestive generalizations concerning function of the natural philosopher: especially, he who experiments in electricity discerns laws of nature, "that is, of the God of nature himself.")
Rava, Luigi. "La fortuna di Beniamino Franklin in Italia," Prefazione al volume _Beniamino Franklin_ di Lawrence Shaw Mayo. Firenze: n.d.
Repplier, Emma. "Franklin's Trials as a Benefactor," _Lippincott's Magazine_, LXXVII, 63-70 (Jan., 1906). (Concerning those who during the Revolution wrote Franklin for favors and places.)
Riddell, W. R. "Benjamin Franklin and Colonial Money," _Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography_, LIV, 52-64 (Jan., 1930).
Riddell, W. R. "Benjamin Franklin's Mission to Canada and the Causes of Its Failure," _Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography_, XLVIII, 111-58 (April, 1924).
*Riley, I. W. _American Philosophy: The Early Schools._ New York: 1907, pp. 229-65. (Conventional view of Franklin's deism; with C. M. Walsh [see below], Riley overemphasizes influence of Plato on Franklin's thought.)
Riley, I. W. _American Thought from Puritanism to Pragmatism and Beyond._ New York: 1915, pp. 68-77. (Graphic glimpses of "most precocious of the American skeptics.")
Rosengarten, J. G. "The American Philosophical Society," reprinted from _Founders' Week Memorial Volume_. Philadelphia: 1908.
Ross, E. D. "Benjamin Franklin as an Eighteenth-Century Agriculture Leader," _Journal of Political Economy_, XXXVII, 52-72 (Feb., 1929). (No "rural sentimentalist," Franklin experimented in agriculture, particularly during 1747-1755, as a utilitarian idealist. Quotes one who suggests Franklin was "half physiocratic before the rise of the physiocratic school." Excellent and well-documented survey.)