Forgotten Franklin letters

This may be the case for composers as well, as works may be under the publishers' or copyist's name. Publishers and copyists sometimes had a crucial role into the shaping of the eventual published works.

clipped from www.cnn.com The collection of 47 letters are hand-written copies made 250 years ago, when Franklin lived in London. That they were filed under the copyist's name, not Franklin's, may explain why they were overlooked by historians until now, said a curator at the British Library, where the letters are held.