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Benjamin Franklin (Franklin, Benjamin - Early): Letters
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The Writings of Benjamin Franklin is a very valuable resource for Franklin's writings. It covers 1722 to 1775 and includes all of the Silence Dogood letters, the Busy Body letters, a number of issues of the Pennsylvania Gazette, the Albany Plan, numerous letters to friends & family, and lots of essays and articles from newspapers in U.S. and England.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) once wrote, "If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead & rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing." Benjamin Franklin was a writer, printer, statesman, and inventor. He's known as the writer of "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin," but he wrote letters, journals, essays, books, newspaper articles, ballads, and almanacs. Franklin ... founded what is considered the first public library.
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Benjamin Franklin's work was done. He was now an old man of eighty-two summers and his feeble body was racked by a painful malady. Yet he kept his face towards the morning. About a hundred of his letters, written after this time, have been preserved. These letters show no retrospection, no looking backward. They never mention "the good old times." As long as he lived, Franklin looked forward.
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Benjamin Franklin's letter was sent to William Strahan, a printer and patron of literature whom Franklin befriended while in Europe around 1750. Strahan grew rapidly wealthy as a printer in London, despite a difficult beginning. Strahan's success as a publisher and bookseller eventually won him a place in Parliament in 1775. Strahan and Franklin enjoyed frequent and friendly correspondence, despite their differences in political matters at the time of tension between America and England. Many letters of Franklin were kept in Strahan's family after Franklin's death.
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In 1746 Benjamin Franklin started his experiments in electricity, culminating in his identification of electricity with lightning. This selection contains 1) a letter to Peter Collinson, a Fellow of the Royal Society, describing Franklin's experiments with electricity; 2) an essay by Franklin discussing lightning, electricity and a lightning rod; and 3) a history of Franklin's results in electricity, as drawn up by Dr. Henry Stuber, a contemporary of Franklin.
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To summarize the letter, Franklin writes that he is returning Strahan's letter which he received by mail from Captain Walker. Franklin says that he intends to return his letter fully by way of Hammet who will sail for London in approximately ten days. He is concerned that he may have offended W Becket and asks Strahan that if he has, he would like to reconcile their differences. Apparently, Franklin had paid for some books which Strahan had or was printing and wanted to see if he had them yet, in particular Stewart's Athens. He ends the letter by pledging his love to Strahan and his family, basically wishing him good luck and good health.
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