The Franklin Papers in the American Philosophical Society
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, and at home he kept copies of wills, deeds, powers of attorney, bonds, agreements, bills, etc. , and drafts, checques, bills of lading, public accounts, and even certified copies of Acts of Congress, and account books, and, in addition, Temple Frank- lin left eight volumes of letters to him from 1775 to 1790. In this mass of material his biographers have found much that was of value, but there remains almost untouched the interesting correspondence of his friends in England during the years b...efore and those of the War of Independence. There are examples of his own clever jeux d 1 esprit in the " Intended Speech for the Opening of the Parliament in 1774, " in which the king himself is made to foretell the " seven or ten years' job" that his " Ministers have 1903. ] ROSENGARTEN "FRANKLIN PAPERS. " 167 put upon him to undertake the reduction of the whole Continent of North America to unconditional submission. " His friend Hartley sent it to him in 1786, when the prophecy had been fully realized.
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