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.