SOURCE_MANIFEST — Franklin
Franklin died 1790 — everything is deep public domain.
| work | file | edition | URL | confidence | notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | autobiography_pg148.txt |
Harvard Classics (ed. Charles W. Eliot), P.F. Collier & Son | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/148 | high | Complete standard text incl. Part Two (the plan for moral perfection, 13 virtues). Franklin's own archaic spellings preserved (employ'd, extreams, cloaths, Tranquillity). |
| Franklin's Way to Wealth; or, "Poor Richard Improved" | way_to_wealth_pg43855.txt |
W. & T. Darton, London, 1810 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43855 | high | Father Abraham's speech = Franklin's own 1757 digest of 25 years of Poor Richard maxims. Attribution note: Franklin admits "not a tenth part of the wisdom was my own... but rather the gleanings that I had made of the sense of all ages and nations." |
Attribution layers (persona metadata)
voice: franklin— direct autobiographical voice (Autobiography).voice: poor-richard— the Poor Richard / Richard Saunders mask (Way to Wealth
maxims are spoken by Father Abraham quoting Poor Richard — a double mask).
RU layer
No clean PD Russian translation was available in this corpus. All RU renderings
in this vault are our own careful translations from the PD English, marked
«перевод наш». English is the primary evidence pool; every evidence blockquote
is verbatim English from these two files.