Will The Benjamin Franklin Obsessed Thomas Birch Please Stand Up?
Thomas Birch, copier of newly discovered Benjamin Franklin letters (said discovery is thanks to Professor Alan Houston, a political science professor at UC San Diego) is the English historian . There is another famous Thomas Birch, an artist, who is not the Thomas Birch that copied the Benjamin Franklin letters. Thanks to Wikipedia for the following information about Thomas Birch, and his connection to Benjamin Franklin. Copies of Franklin letters "Recently discovered by American researcher Alan Houston at the British Library is a file entitled Copies of [Benjamin Franklin's] Letters relating to the March of General Braddock. Birch was said to have obsessively copied any documents of historical importance he could get his hands on. He was a friend of Franklin , and they were both members of the Royal Society . In his autobiography, Franklin refers to his "Quire Book", which has never been found, but which contained letters and papers concerning his efforts to suppo...