1From Benjamin Franklin to Bethia Alexander, 24 June 1782 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): Library of Congress I am not at all displeas’d that the Thesis and Dedication with which we were threatned are blown over, for I dislike much all sorts of Mummery.— The Republic of Letters has gain’d no Reputation, whatever else it may have gain’d, by the Commerce of Dedications. I never made one, and I never desir’d that one should be made to me. When I submit[ torn: ted to?]...