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Letters of Benjamin Franklin and Jane Mecom
By (Author) Carl Van Doren
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Biography: historical, political and military
History of the Americas
Political leaders and leadership
973.3092
Hardback
410
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
482g
The delightful correspondence between Benjamin Franklin and his favorite sister, with an introduction and notes by Carl Van Doren. Franklin wrote more letters to Jane Mecom than he is known to have written to any other person, and as she emerges through these letters we understand the reasons for the esteem in which he held her. The letters cover a