Forgotten Franklin letters offer glimpse into US history - 47 letters about & by Ben Franklin found

[Divine Discontent]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/25/uk.franklin.letters/index.html?iref=topnews

LONDON, England (CNN) -- An American professor doing research in London stumbled across a series of previously unknown letters written by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin, a stunning find that sheds new light on early U.S. history.
The letters cover Benjamin Franklin's success in dealing with a British general.

The collection of 47 letters are hand-written copies made 250 years ago, when Franklin lived in London. That they were filed under the copyist's name, not Franklin's, may explain why they were overlooked by historians until now, said a curator at the British Library, where the letters are held.

The find is reported in the April issue of the William & Mary Quarterly, a journal of early American history and culture.

The letters are important in large part because they offer a "wealth of new details" that affect modern understanding of Franklin, writes Alan Houston, the political science professor who discovered the letters in the spring of 2007.


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Thomas Birch copied them a long time ago, good on him! This was exciting I'm sure to the American!


more at www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable

[Democracyinkind]

1. Anything about the dead chaps in his London residence perhaps?

http://www.zanzoona.com/franklin.php

;-)

[Divine Discontent]

2. ha

prob put there to discredit him perhaps, that's what I think, or I supposed maybe he was all Hannibal Lecter (sp) like, and enjoyed Fava beans and a nice Chianti.