Posted by
Conservative Wordsmith on Saturday, April 25, 2009 8:32:49 PM
Conservative Wordsmith Susan Baldwin writes: New letters written by Founding Father Benjamin Franklin were recently discovered by Alan Houston, a political science professor at UC San Diego. A total of 47 letters are in the archives at the British Library in London, England, yet these letters, according to Alan Houston, are not in the previously published definitive collection of Benjamin Franklin's writings.
The letters were evidently written by Benjamin Franklin, but reproduced by one Thomas Birch, a British literary figure.
"In all, Houston found 47 letters Birch had reproduced that were written by Franklin, to him or about him in 1755, when the French and Indian War was starting to bloody the American continent."
"'I couldn't sit still; I couldn't work,' Houston said Thursday. 'On the last day, on the last document, and I had this incredible discovery. I ran out of the library and called my wife in San Diego.'"
The above information, including quotations, are from a Los Angeles Times article entitled:
By Tony Perry
April 24, 2009
Question: I wonder how many other "undiscovered" documents are hiding in libraries all over the world, just waiting for someone willing to take a little time to find them. It troubles me a little that someone representing said British Library did not already make the discovery.
Stay tuned for more posts on Benjamin Franklin's letter to his wife, Deborah, and on Thomas Birch.
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