1Library Company of Philadelphia: Rules for the Librarian, [12 December 1763] (Franklin Papers)
MS Minute Book, Library Company of Philadelphia; also printed in The Charter, Laws, and Catalogue of Books, of the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1764), pp. 19–21. On Nov. 14, 1763, the directors of the Library Company appointed a committee consisting of Franklin, Francis Alison, Samuel Rhoads, and Charles Thomson to prepare a set of rules for the conduct of the librarian. The...