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Notes
I am indebted to the Research Committees of Temple University and the American Philosophical Society for grants to pursue this investigation.
For this statistical information and that on the earlier Poor Richards I owe thanks to Miss Dorothy W. Bridgewater of the Yale University Library.
Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing, ed. Herbert Davis and Harry Carter (1958), p. 292.
Account Books (Ledgers A and B, 1728-1737), ed. George Simpson Eddy (1928); Account Books (Ledger D, 1739-1747), ed. G. S. Eddy (1929). Cited hereafter as FAB I and FAB II respectively.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Franklin Papers: Accounts Franklin-Hall, 1747-1766 (folio sheet bound as separate volume). Cited hereafter as AFH.
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