LONDON, England (CNN)-- An American professor doing research in London stumbled across a series of previously unknown letters written by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin, a stunning find that ...

He was dispatching letters mainly to Americans in the colonies ... That is perhaps fitting. Benjamin Franklin, inventor extraordinaire, wondered what the future would hold as he confronted the ...

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...

One of these diplomats was Benjamin Franklin. In 1778, France signed a treaty of alliance with the United States and Franklin would later write a letter to Congress, arguing it was in America's ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- An American professor doing research in London stumbled across a series of previously unknown letters written by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin, a stunning find that ...