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1From Benjamin Franklin to Sir William Browne, [1772] (Franklin Papers)
AD (draft): American Philosophical Society This blast shows Franklin at his most abusive and least witty. His anger had been aroused by the vagaries of Sir William Browne, an old and wealthy physician and former President of the Royal College of Physicians, and an F.R.S. since 1739. Sir William had strongly opposed the election of Sir John Pringle, as noted above, to the presidency of the...