Benjamin Franklin's "An Open Letter to Lord North" revealed his genius as well as the quiet confidence and puckish humor of the American people chaffing under British rule. Franklin's 1774 missive, published in a British newspaper, was composed in London's Smyrna Coffee House on St. James Street. This was not your local Starbucks. For more than a century, Smyrna Coffee House had been a meeting... (Read Full Article)