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References
- ↑ Naedele, Walter F. (12 January 2009). "Whitfield J. Bell Jr., expert on Ben Franklin, author". Inquirer.
- ↑ Gardener Digital Library
- ↑ Klein, Randolph Shipley, ed. (1986). Science and Society in Early America: Essays in Honor of Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. Volume 166, Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society. American Philosophical Society. ISBN 0-87169-166-3. LCCN 85071740.
- Whitfield J. Bell Jr., Gardener Digital Library. online
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