From: Mike Tighe <tighe@spectrum.titan.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 00:46:44 +0800
To: mwohler@ix.netcom.com (Marc J. Wohler)
Subject: Re: Gentlemen do not read each other's mail
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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.