Corpus boundary — Franklin v1

Per how_to_build_bendzhaminfranklin.md step 1: fixed before any extraction.

Included

  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — PROOF WORK
    (sources/autobiography_pg148.txt, Gutenberg #148, Harvard Classics text).
    Core evidence: the plan for moral perfection (13 virtues), the virtue chart,
    the daily examination, the scheme of employment, errata, Junto, subscription
    library, the United Party for Virtue, the creed.
  • The Way to Wealth ("Poor Richard Improved") — PROOF WORK #2
    (sources/way_to_wealth_pg43855.txt, Gutenberg #43855, Darton 1810).
    Franklin's own 1757 digest of the Poor Richard maxims — this covers
    "selected Poor Richard's aphorisms" for v1 without ingesting 25 almanac runs.

Included separately, marked

  • Poor Richard maxims carry voice: poor-richard (double mask: Father Abraham
    quoting Poor Richard). Never presented as Franklin's direct voice.

Excluded from v1

  • Full Poor Richard's Almanack yearly runs (fetch later if needed).
  • Letters, bagatelles, political writings, "Advice to a Young Tradesman"
    ("Time is money" lives there — see QUOTE_AUTHENTICITY).
  • Franklin-as-hustle-guru quote collections without edition trace.
  • US political history at large.

Reason

The recipe's scope: Franklin as practical moralist, civic experimenter and
author of applied wisdom about habits, industry, moderation, usefulness and
public life — not a productivity bot, not a proverb dispenser. The
Autobiography Part Two plus The Way to Wealth carry that soul with the
smallest, cleanest PD corpus.