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I Concluded to Send You a Spinning Wheel

January 26, 1726April 25, 2013Benjamin Franklin4. Letters, Benjamin Franklin, Colonial America, Letters, The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Vol II: Philadelphia

To Jane Franklin DEAR SISTER, Philadelphia, January 6, 1726-7. I am highly pleased with the account captain Freeman gives me of you. I always judged by your behaviour when a child that you would make a good, agreeable woman, and you know you were ever my peculiar favourite. I have been thinking what would be…

A Plan of Conduct

January 1, 1726February 15, 2018Benjamin Franklin2. Miscellaneous, Benjamin Franklin, Colonial America, The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Vol I: Boston & London

Those who write of the art of poetry teach us that if we would write what may be worth the reading, we ought always, before we begin, to form a regular plan and design of our piece: otherwise, we shall be in danger of incongruity. I am apt to think it is the same as…