1 These pieces, from the pen of Dr. Franklin, have never appeared in any edition of his works, and are from the manuscript book which contains the Lecture and Essays published in former numbers of the Messenger.
PROPOSALS
That P. S. and A. N. be immediately invited into the Junto.
That all new members be qualified by the four qualifications, and all the old ones take it.
That these queries copied at the beginning of a book, be read distinctly each meeting, a pause between each while one might fill and drink a glass of wine.
That if they cannot all be gone through in one night, we begin the next where we left off, only, such as particularly regard the funds to be read every night.
That it be not hereafter the duty of any member to bring queries, but left to his discretion.
That an old declamation be, without fail, read every night when there is no new one.
That Mr. Brientnal's Poem on the Junto be read over once a month, and hum'd in consort2 by as many as can hum it.
2 Concert was thus spelt in the beginning of the last century. See many examples in the Tatler, etc.