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Jane Mecom, the Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin: Her Life Here First Fully Narrated from Their Entire Surviving Correspondence
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Jane Mecom, the Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin: Her Life Here First Fully Narrated from Their Entire Surviving Correspondence

by Carl Van Doren. 255 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Carl Van Doren

Publisher:

   Viking Press

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1950
Subjects:   Mecom, Jane Franklin,--1712-1794, Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790
Table of contents
CONTENTS
PREFACE v
1 A LOWLY DWELLING 3
2 INGENIOUS, SENSIBLE, NOTABLE, AND WORTHY 24
3 As OUR NUMBER GROWS LESS 42
4 SORROWS ROLL UPON ME 62
5 BAD WEATHER DOES NOT LAST ALWAYS 90
6 MY DEAR BROTHER'S CONVERSATION 116
7 THE WANT OF SUITABLE CONVERSATION 134
8 TO LIVE AT EASE IN MY OLD AGE 161
9 A LETTER FROM YOU ONCE A MONTH 177
10 SOMETHING TO WEAN US FROM THIS WORLD 206
11 TO ITS PARENT DUST 230
ACKNOWLEDGMENT 242
INDEX 243
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books on: (Mecom Jane Franklin 1712 1794) OR (Franklin Benjamin 1706 1790)  - 1366 results

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The Letters of Benjamin Franklin & Jane Mecom
Book by Carl Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin, Jane Mecom; Princeton University Press, 1950
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin--1706-1790--Correspondence, Mecom, Jane Franklin--1712-1794--Correspondence
...great-grandson of Franklin, published Letters to Benjamin Franklin, from his Family and Friends 1751-1790 in a small edition of 10 copies quarto and 250 octavo...1785, when Franklin returned from France, and April 1790, when he died. In that brief time she wrote him more...friends or acquaintances tried through her to obtain Franklins interest in their affairs. She thought it impertinent...Flagg, for instance, must have reminded her of her son Benjamin, in his readiness to expect patronage from Franklin...
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Jane Mecom, the Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin: Her Life Here First Fully Narrated from Their Entire Surviving Correspondence
Book by Carl Van Doren; Viking Press, 1950
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin--1706-1790, Mecom, Jane Franklin--1712-1794
...live close to large events in the career of a husband. But Jane Mecom is more than a contribution to history. She is an addition...garden encloses the ground formerly occupied by the Douse-Franklin-Mecom house, No. 19 Unity Street, at the right of the spectator...when Jane, the seventh daughter, was born on March 27, 1712. She was eleven when her restless brother ran away from...
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Benjamin Franklin and Catharine Ray Greene: Their Correspondence, 1755-1790
Book by William Greene Roelker; American Philosophical Society, 1949
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin--1706-1790--Correspondence, Greene, Catharine Ray--1731-1794--Correspondence
...of Governor Samuel Ward. A number of original letters from Franklin to Mrs. Catharine Ray Greene, both before and after her marriage in 1758, and from Mrs. Jane Mecom, were at the Greene Homestead in Warwick, Rhode Island, which...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Book by Benjamin Franklin; Macmillan, 1914
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin--1706-1790
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Macmillans Pocket American and English Classics A SERIES OF ENGLISH TEXTS, EDITED FOR USE IN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS, WITH CRITICAL INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES, ETC. I6mo Cloth 25 cents each Addisons...
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The Ingenious Dr. Franklin: Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin
Book by Nathan G. Goodman, Benjamin Franklin; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1931
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin--1706-1790--Correspondence, Science--Early Works To 1800, Scientists--United States--Correspondence
...SELECTED SCIENTIFIC LETTERS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Edited by NATHAN G. GOODMAN...States of America PREFACE THE new Benjamin Franklin Memorial and the Franklin Institute...ILLUSTRATIONS Benjamin Franklin frontispiece...
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Three Earliest Published Lives of Benjamin Franklin, 1790-93: the Autobiography and Its Continuations
Journal article by Betty Kushen; Early American Literature, Vol. 9, 1999
Subjects: American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, American Literature--Revolutionary Period, 1775-1783
...8 Buisson edition, p. 2. Only outside the arena of party politics both domestic and foreign have most of Franklins biographers down to the present day found his public career absolutely blameless. Even Carl Van Dorens idealizing...
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Exhibition as Dance: An Exercise in Creative Partnering
Journal article by Barbara Fahs Charles; American Studies International, Vol. 42, 2004
Subjects: Dance--Analysis, Dance--History, Dancing--Analysis, Dancing--History
...Cluss developed as two of Washingtons public schools, Franklin and Sumner, built in 1869 and 1871 for white and black...Matters" (1706-1723), addresses the profound influence of Franklins family and Bostons Puritan theocracy on shaping his character...
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History through Many Eyes: Ten Strategies for Building Understanding of Time Concepts with Historical Picture Books
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...President? Philomel Books. Schanzer, Rosalyn. (2003). How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning. HarperCollins. (1706-1790) Sis, Peter...Earhart, 1897-1937 and Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962) Yolen, Jane. (2003). My Brothers Flying Machine: Wilbur, Orville, and Me...
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Puritan Day: A Social Science Simulation
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...rice.edu/~univ302/StudentWork/S97/ blondie/main.html (accessed February 26, 2007). (7.) Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (New York: Simon Schuster, 2004), 78-88. To access this work on the web, see the Electronic...
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The Work Ethic of the Plain Folk: Labor and Religion in the Old South
Journal article by Carl R. Osthaus; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 70, 2004
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...quotation); James Jackson Carroll, vol. II, 463; Jack Harvey Coats, vol. II, 524; Edward Jerry Davis, vol. II, 646; Benjamin Franklin Derby, vol. II, 633; James A. Delozier, vol. II, 665; Edward Silas Doe, vol. II, 702; Thomas Jefferson Howard, vol. III...
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The First American Political Cartoon
Magazine article by Mark Bryant; History Today, Vol. 57, December 2007
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin--Works, Political cartoons--History, Politicians--Works, Politics--Portrayals
...Bryant looks at the first political cartoon--and one of the most influential ever--to be published in America BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, as generations of schoolchildren have been taught, was the man who flew a kite into a storm cloud to see if lightning...


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newspaper articles on: (Mecom Jane Franklin 1712 1794) OR (Franklin Benjamin 1706 1790)  - 17 results

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Benjamin Franklin; Detailing the Early Years of Benjamin Franklin
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 18, 2005
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin, Franklin, James, Special events
Benjamin Franklin; Detailing the Early Years of Benjamin Franklin. Byline: James Srodes, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Now we embark on a prolonged celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin. In mid-December the...
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Hotel Kid, Con Man, Founding Father
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 15, 2002
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin
...the theory and practice of getting ahead than Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)? Indefatigable, insatiably curious, as prominent in scientific experiments as he was in public affairs, Franklin was also a highly successful businessman. His printing...
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Happy Birthday, Ben
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), January 15, 2006
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin
...Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard Question: If Benjamin Franklin were alive today - or better yet, on Tuesday - would he be able...brewmaster at Full Sail Riverplace in Oregon. Incidentally, his wife, Jane Rowden, is a distant ancestor of Franklins. Harris was one of...
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Happy Birthday, Ben; National Archives Celebrates 300-Year-Old American Original
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 21, 2006
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin
...Ben; National Archives Celebrates 300-Year-Old American Original. Byline: Arlo Wagner, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Benjamin Franklin was never president of the United States, but his 300th birthday was celebrated on Presidents Day with an exhibit honoring...
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Barely Time to Buckle Up; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 6, 2005
...down by American statesman Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) in Poor Richards Almanac...for the loss of a horseshoe nail. Franklin was one of the 18th centurys most...leave anything to chance, and for Franklin to be so successful in so many disciplines...
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