Book of Ages (73 page)

mourning ring given to,
39.1
,
43.1
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app1.1
,
app1.2

Grey, Lady Jane,
1.1
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4.1
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38.1

Grounds and Rules of Musick Explained, The

Gulliver’s Travels
(Swift),
9.1
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Gutenberg, Johannes

Halifax,
36.1
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Harcourt, Lady,
42.1
,
app1.1

Harcourt, Robert Vernon,
42.1
,
app1.1

Harcourt, William George Granville,
42.1
,
app1.1

Harris, Anne Franklin,
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Harris, Grace,
see
Williams, Grace Harris

Harris, Josiah,
n

Harvard College (Harvard University),
3.1
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3.2
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5.1
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6.1
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10.1
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BF’s honorary degree from

Sparks at,
41.1
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41.2
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Hawk, Love

health issues,
12.1
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14.1
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15.1
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15.2
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15.3
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tuberculosis,
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Hell-Fire Club

Henry, Patrick,
25.1
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35.1

Henry VIII, King of England,
1.1
,
1.2
,
10.1

“Historical Characters Are False Representations of Nature” (Brown)

history,
2.1
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3.1
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6.1
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12.1
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14.1
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26.1
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Austen and,
38.1
,
38.2

fiction and,
38.1
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app1.1

Sparks philosophy of

History of England, from The Earliest Times to the Death of George II, The
(Goldsmith)

“History of England from the Reign of Henry the 4th to the Death of Charles the 1st, by a Partial, Prejudiced, & Ignorant Historian, The” (Austen),
38.1
,
38.2

“History of the Life and Character of Benjamin Franklin”

History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
(Fielding)

Homes, Mary Franklin,
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Homes, William, Jr.,
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Homes, William, Sr.,
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Horace

Hubbart, Thomas,
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Hughes, John,
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Hume, David,
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Hunter, William

Hutchinson, Thomas,
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hymns,
6.1
,
10.1

imprisonment,
3.1
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8.1
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26.1

for debt,
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during war,
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independence of colonies,
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28.1
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32.1
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34.1

industry,
13.1
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15.1
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15.2
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15.3
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15.4
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19.1
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23.1
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29.1
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32.1

“Inscription for a Curious Chamber-Stove, in the Form of an Urn, so conceived as to make the flame descend, instead of rise, from the Fire, Invented by Doctor Franklin” (Odell)

Interest of Great Britain Considered, The
(B. Franklin),
20.1
,
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n

Intolerable Acts

Izard, Ralph,
n

Jane Mecom, the Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin
(Van Doren),
42.1
,
app1.1

Jay, John

Jefferson, Thomas,
13.1
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28.1
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28.2
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Jones, Paul

“Journeys End, The” (B. Franklin the Elder)

Keimer, Samuel,
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Keith, William,
9.1
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9.2

Kinsman, Jane Mecom,
20.1
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35.1
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death of,
41.1
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JFM cared for by,
30.1
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35.1
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36.1

JFM’s estate and

JFM’s papers and,
40.1
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42.1
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app1.1
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app1.2
,
app1.3

Josiah Flagg’s correspondence with,
34.1
,
35.1

marriage of,
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near death of,
36.1
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Kinsman, Simon,
41.1
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Ladies Library, The
(anthology),
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Lafayette, Marquis of

Lancaster, Mass.,
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35.1
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library of,
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La Rochefoucauld, Louis-Alexandre de

Lathrop, Ann,
see
Motley, Ann Lathrop

Lathrop, Elizabeth,
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Lathrop, Jane,
see
Loring, Jane Lathrop

Lathrop, John,
34.1
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JFM’s death and,
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JFM’s estate and,
39.1
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app1.1

Price’s correspondence with,
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sermons of,
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Lathrop, Mary Wheatley,
n

law,
12.1
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natural

law of conservation of charge

Ledlie, Hugh,
n

Lee, Arthur

Lelyveld, Frans van

Leslie, Hugh,
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Lessons for Children
(Barbauld),
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,
app6.1

letters, letter writing,
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art of

calendar of,
app1.1
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app4.1

as comfort,
16.1
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app1.1

as conversation,
16.1
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delivered by travelers

expectations for

JFM’s first surviving,
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JFM’s lack of copy for,
17.1
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lost,
3.1
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13.1
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16.1
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17.1
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17.2
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manuals for,
9.1
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novels and

postage for,
8.1
,
17.1

of reproof vs. excuse

revelation in

survival of

as tissue of coyness and custom

see also specific correspondents

Letters from an American Farmer
(Crèvecoeur)

Letters of Benjamin Franklin and Jane Mecom, The
(Van Doren, ed.),
42.1
,
app1.1
,
app1.2

letters of credit,
9.1
,
9.2

Letters to Benjamin Franklin, from his Family and Friends, 1751–1790
,
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Letter to the People of Pennsylvania

Le Veillard, Louis-Guillaume,
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Lexington, Mass.

liberty,
21.1
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22.1
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25.1
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libraries

of BF,
33.1
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at Blue Ball,
5.1
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7.2
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8.1
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app6.4

of Franklin, Mass.,
32.1
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of JFM,
app1.1
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lady’s

Lancaster,
40.1
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40.2
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40.3
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Library Company of Philadelphia,
12.1
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Library of American Biography, The
(book series)

Library of Congress

Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman, The
(Sterne)

Life of Baron Frederic Trenck, The
(Trenck)

Life of Johnson
(Boswell)

Life of the Late Earl of Chesterfield: or, The Man of the World, The

literacy,
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Lives
(Plutarch),
7.1
,
12.1
,
app6.1

“Lives of the Obscure, The” (Woolf)

Locke, John,
13.1
,
32.1
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app6.1

London,
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8.1
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BF in,
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17.2
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17.3
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20.1
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21.1
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24.1
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28.1
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31.1
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BF’s autobiography in,
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BF sent to,
9.1
,
9.2

BF’s preparations for sailing to,
15.1
,
20.1

book purchases in,
12.1
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15.1
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debt in

magazines in

printing and publishing in,
9.1
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10.1
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11.1
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14.1
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16.1
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Royal Society in

Temple Franklin in,
31.1
,
37.1
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William Franklin in,
20.1
,
31.1
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37.1
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Wright in,
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