Book of Ages (68 page)

  
1.
  See BF to Abiah Folger Franklin, Philadelphia, October 16, 1747.

  
2.
  JFM to BF, December 1, 1767, and BF to JFM, December 24, 1767.

  
3.
  For her request, see JFM to BF, October 19, 1785. For what seems to be a confirmation that she received the catalog of books, see JFM to BF, November 30, 1785.

  
4.
  
A Catalogue of Those Books in Franklin Library Which Belong to the Town
(n.p., 1812).

  
5.
  BF to JFM, February 22, 1789.

  
6.
  JFM to DRF, September 28, 1765.

  
7.
  JFM to BF, June 13, 1781. Van Doren,
Letters,
209.

  
8.
  I have not been able to discover where or how he acquired it, but one possibility is that it was from the private collection of Howard Corning, who, at least between 1927 and 1932, was a librarian at the Baker Library at Harvard Business School and who also had in his collection at least one item belonging to Josiah Flagg. In 1933, Corning became the secretary of the Essex Institute, now the Peabody Essex Museum. Tim Mahoney, manuscripts librarian, Baker Library, Harvard Business School, e-mail to the author, January 9, 2012.

  
9.
  
BF to Jonathan Williams Sr., London, April 3, 1773.

10.
  BF to JFM, December 24, 1767.

11.
  JFM to BF, October 23, 1781.

12.
  JFM to BF, October 29, 1781.

13.
  BF to JFM, January 24, 1786, and BF to JFM, April 25, 1786.

14.
  BF to JFM, July 28, 1774. Van Doren,
Letters,
145.

15.
  Van Doren,
Letters,
145.

16.
  JFM to BF, January 6, 1786. BF to JFM, January 24, 1786.
Life of Chesterfield,
386.

17.
  Van Doren,
Letters,
209.

18.
  BF to JFM, October 25, 1779, and JFM to BF, March 27, 1780.

19.
  For instance, Benjamin Colman, who was Jane’s minister at the Brattle Street Church, once wrote a reply, called “The Transport. To Mr. Pope, on looking again into his Essay on Man,” February 14, 1740. Benjamin Colman Papers, Box 1, MHS.

20.
  Van Doren,
Letters,
145.

21.
  JFM to BF, May 22, 1787. Van Doren,
Letters,
293.

22.
  Van Doren,
Letters,
145.

23.
  JFM to BF, July 4, 1784.

24.
  
Catalogue of rare, curious and valuable books, theological, classical, philosophical and literary to be sold by public auction at Francis Amory’s auction room … February 22, 1816 being the library of the late reverend John Lathrop
(Boston, 1816), 2.

25.
  Ibid., 6.