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Gazette Of The United States
New York, New York County, New York
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Extract from a Philadelphia letter dated April 20, reporting Dr. Franklin's death as an ornament to philosophy and literature, with unpublished anecdotes emerging and his vast manuscript papers, memorandums, and global correspondence promising extensive publications on philosophy, mathematics, politics, and the late war, including letters from Mr. D—S describing British manufactures and leaders.
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Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, April 20.
Dr. Franklin lived and died an ornament to the Philosophic and literary world; the press has already produced some anecdotes (hitherto unpublished) of this veteran and reverend sage; it is said his store of MS papers, memorandums, and correspondency letters will afford a vast scope for literary publication upon Philosophy, Mathematics, legislative and circuitous Politicks, prior to, and during the late war. His correspondence seems to have been with men of the first rate abilities and genius, and not confined to any part of the globe. He found means to get communications of the first authority even from Asia as well as Africa, and the principal places in Spanish and Portuguese America. It is said his valuable collection is not a little added to by a series of letters written to him when at Paris, between the years 1775 and 1783, in a style similar to that of the Jewish Spy, by a Mr. D—S, (who was employed in England during that time as agent for America, and is since gone to India) and are fraught with much political as well as commercial knowledge, describing in a particular manner the manufactures, and giving characters and anecdotes of the leading men of Great-Britain, &c.
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Philadelphia
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April 20
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dr. franklin's death; his papers and correspondence to be published extensively
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Dr. Franklin lived and died an ornament to the Philosophic and literary world; the press has already produced some anecdotes (hitherto unpublished) of this veteran and reverend sage; it is said his store of MS papers, memorandums, and correspondency letters will afford a vast scope for literary publication upon Philosophy, Mathematics, legislative and circuitous Politicks, prior to, and during the late war. His correspondence seems to have been with men of the first rate abilities and genius, and not confined to any part of the globe. He found means to get communications of the first authority even from Asia as well as Africa, and the principal places in Spanish and Portuguese America. It is said his valuable collection is not a little added to by a series of letters written to him when at Paris, between the years 1775 and 1783, in a style similar to that of the Jewish Spy, by a Mr. D—S, (who was employed in England during that time as agent for America, and is since gone to India) and are fraught with much political as well as commercial knowledge, describing in a particular manner the manufactures, and giving characters and anecdotes of the leading men of Great-Britain, &c.