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Tara,

What a pleasure to read this essay and learn about Edward Cave.

I'd heard the word "franking" before, but didn't know its meaning. Now I can see how it relates to its use as candid, i.e,. free.

I guess we all have "frank" subscribers and paying ones.

This is a great idea for a series. Looking forward to future installments.

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Thank you, David! I have long found Cave and his magazine so interesting, so it was a pleasure to dig into his biography and find all these points of writerly advice demonstrated.

I hadn't thought about "frank" subscriptions, but you're right. Substack was wise to create a model that allowed for both frank and paid options. :-) You might enjoy Samuel Johnson's 1755 definition. In the entry for the verb, "to frank" (in the mail), he refers back to this entry for the adjective: https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=magazine .

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