LoC Blog: Benjamin Franklin Papers

The papers of Benjamin Franklin at the Library of Congress have had almost as adventurous a life as Franklin had himself. They have been abandoned and recovered, cut up by a dressmaker to make patterns and used as collateral for debt. After surviving all of that, they narrowly escaped fiery destruction on a New York pier (more on this later).
Now, in a technological development that would have fascinated Franklin, the Manuscript Division is pleased to announce that the papers have been digitized and made available on the Library of Congress website.
The approximately 8,000 items that constitute Benjamin Franklin’s papers at the Library are organized in four groups, or series. ... [mehr] https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/04/new-online-benjamin-franklin-papers/