Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Part 13 summary

What happens

1. Franklin raises academy subscriptions, arranges a building transfer, and supervises alterations while David Hall manages the printing business.
2. He accepts government posts, withdraws from judicial work, and joins treaty negotiations at Carlisle, where drinking follows an orderly agreement.
3. He helps Thomas Bond secure hospital funding through a conditional public grant and advises Gilbert Tennent on raising meetinghouse subscriptions.
4. He organizes neighborhood street cleaning, promotes paving, improves lamp design, and proposes ways to remove London's dust and mud.
5. He argues that repeated small conveniences contribute more reliably to happiness than rare windfalls.
6. He shares leadership of the American postal service, improves its finances, and receives academic recognition for electrical research.

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