Sleuthing librarians reconstruct collection

Posted 4/8/06

PHILADELPHIA – When it comes to literary mysteries, the death of Benjamin Franklin’s library is not exactly a whodunit.

Scholars already know the collection was killed by his grandson, William Temple Franklin, who inherited most of the books …

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