Correspondence and research notes related to Eric P. Newman's article "Poor Richards Mottoes for Coinage" published in The Numismatist in December 1956. This issue also included Newman's article "Franklin and the Bank of North America."

Correspondence ranges from 1954 to 1956, and includes correspondents Elston Bradfield, Ray Williamson, Jack Abbott, and the American Philosophical Society. Included in the file but not scanned are article drafts, photocopies of Franklin material from the American Philosophical Society, and follow up letters to the editor published in the February 1957 Numismatist.