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On August 31, 1776, in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin wrote out a copy of his epitaph and presented it to Samuel Morris. The original manuscript belongs to Colonel Richard Gimbel. In it, Franklin compared the body of B. Franklin, printer, to the cover of an old book, with its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding, lying as food for worms, but declared that the work would not be lost and would appear once more in a new and more elegant edition, corrected and improved by the author. The manuscript was given by B. Franklin to Sam. Morris and is in his own handwriting.
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