> Richard A. Pence at richardpence@pipeline.com wrote: > > > Actually, Jefferson and Franklin were literate. > > Eh? Where di this come from? > > Since Benjamin Franklin was apprenticed as a printer, he would have > been very well read and could compose type with the best of them. > For that matter he was literate in both English and French! > > As for Thomas Jefferson, he wrote several thousand letters and had a > 3000 book library and was a master land surveyor, I cannot believe > for a moment that he was illeterate. > > Howerever, I do agree with you that at one point in their lives (as > we both were) illeterate ­ from birth until age ten years or so. > > <aepalmer@a-znet.com> Eh? I think if you will actually read what I wrote - and what you quoted - you will see that I said that both Jefferson and Franklin were LITERATE - meaning they were well-schooled and quite capable of reading and writing and even spelling. <g> In case you didn't get it - as you apparently didn't - the remark was a little dig at President Andrew Jackson, who - by some accounts - was barely literate. Richard "Richard A. Pence" <richardpence@pipeline.com>