Gentlemen do not read each other's mail
Mike Tighe
tighe at spectrum.titan.com
Fri Jan 26 08:46:44 PST 1996
Marc J. Wohler writes:
> "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail."
> Ben Franklin
>
>Original quote by Ben Franklin when the British government published
>(stolen?) private letters of
>John Adams to his wife critical of Franklyn and other members of the
>Continental Congress.
Can you provide a source for this? Franklin was known to use encryption,
and the quote has been attributed to Stimson and no one else for years. I
really doubt Franklin was naive enough to think that the British government
were gentlemanly enough to respect his privacy.
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