Silence Dogood Letters-Benjamin Franklin
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Silence Dogood Letters by Benjamin Franklin.As a teenager, Benjamin Franklin apprenticed with his brother James at the shop where The New-England Courant was printed. Since James would not publish any of Benjamin's works, fifteen-year-old Benjamin sent letters to The New England Courant under the pseudonym Silence Dogood. A total of fourteen letters were sent, one each fortnight, between April and December of 1722.Featured on Poor Richard's Alamanac.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.
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