"The new Pennsylvania Fireplaces, as he called them, were initially somewhat popular, at PS5 apiece, and papers around the colonies were filled with testimonials. "They ought to be called, both in justice and gratitude, Mr. Franklin's stoves," declared one letter writer in the Boston Evening Post. "I believe all who have experienced the comfort and benefit of them will join with me that the author of this happy invention merits a statue." The governor of Pennsylvania was among the enthusiastic, and he offered Franklin what could have been a lucrative patent. "But I declined it," Franklin noted in his autobiography. "As we enjoy great advantages from the invention of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously." It was a noble and sincere sentiment."