and Qualifications of a Watchman of Israel.
———.
A Sermon Preached October 9, 1760
.
F RANCIS W ORCESTER .
Sabbath-Profanity
.
1761
An Account of the Voyages and Cruizes of Capt. Walker.
W ILLIAM B URKE .
Remarks on the Letter
.
A LEXANDER C UMMING .
A Sermon
.
A Curious and Authentic Account of the Remarkable Behaviour of Francis David Stirn
W. H. D ILWORTH .
Lord Anson’s Voyage Round the World
.
J AMES J ANEWAY .
Heaven Upon Earth
.
The New-England Psalter
.
J OHN P ERKINS .
An Essay on the Agitations of the Sea
.
D AVID R OWLAND .
Ministers of Christ
.
S OCIETY OF F RIENDS .
A Letter from a Meeting of the Brethren Called Quakers.
1762
J OSEPH B UCKMINSTER .
Ministers to be Pray’d For
.
Debtor and Creditor
.
B ENJAMIN F RANKLIN .
Advice to a Young Tradesman
.
W ILLIAM L IVINGSTON .
Philosophic Solitude
.
J OSEPH S ECCOMBE .
The Ways of Pleasure
.
A Serious-comical Dialogue
.
APPENDIX G
A Map of Jane’s Boston
Acknowledgments
Heartfelt thanks to the generous librarians, archivists, collectors, and curators who helped me write this book. People taught me how to stitch books. People showed me how to boil soap. People pored over old pages of manuscript. People wrote me the most unbelievable letters. Thank you.
The institutions to which many of these people belong are: the American Antiquarian Society; the American Philosophical Society; the Baker Library, Harvard Business School; the Beaman Memorial Public Library, West Boylston, Massachusetts; the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Firestone Library, Princeton University; the Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Yale University; the Franklin Public Library, Franklin, Massachusetts; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Houghton Library, Harvard University; the Library Company of Philadelphia; the Massachusetts Historical Society; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Nantucket Historical Association Research Library; the National Portrait Gallery; the New England Historic Genealogical Society; the New-York Historical Society; the New York Public Library; Old North Church; Old Sturbridge Village; the Paul Revere House; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Rhode Island Historical Society; the Rosenbach Museum and Library; the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts; Widener Library, Harvard University; and the Worcester Art Museum.
Thanks as well to everyone who answered more questions and suffered through more stories about Benjamin Franklin’s sister than anyone ever ought: Elise Broach, Steven Bullock, Heather Caldwell, Ellen Cohn, Nancy Cott, Amy Davidson, Roy Goodman, James Green, Charles Greifenstein, David Hall, John Hannigan, John Hench, Caitlin Hopkins, John Huffman, Julie Staples Johnson, Walter Johnson, Benjamin Kruskal, ShaneLandrum, Kelly L’Echyer, Susan Lehman, Bruce Mann, Martha McNamara, Liz and Zoe McNerney, Latif Nasser, Todd Pattison, William Reese, Charles Rosenberg, Anne Firor Scott, Gabriel Swift, Charles Van Doren, Gloria Whiting, Emily Wilkinson, Caroline Winterer, and Karin Wulf. Ellen Feldman, Maggie Hinders, and Jillian Verrillo at Knopf heroically shepherded through production a manuscript riddled with Jane’s spelling errors. Julie Miller was astonishingly shrewd, always. Special thanks to the unerringly judicious Janet Hatch. Most particular thanks to Tim, and to our little rogues.
This is a book about reading. Deepest thanks, then, to the people who, very kindly, read it: Adrianna Alty, Tina Bennett, John Demos, Dan Frank, Henry Finder, Jane Kamensky, Leah Price, and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
This book is dedicated to the memory of my mother, who taught me how to sew, and of my father, who once wrote the story of his life. He called it “The Diary of an Unknown.” On its last page, he wrote, “Everyone leaves a mark.” It turns out that he was right.
Notes
ABBREVIATIONS
People
BF
Benjamin Franklin
BM
Benjamin Mecom
CRG
Catharine Ray Greene
DRF
Deborah Read Franklin
JFM
Jane
———.
A Sermon Preached October 9, 1760
.
F RANCIS W ORCESTER .
Sabbath-Profanity
.
1761
An Account of the Voyages and Cruizes of Capt. Walker.
W ILLIAM B URKE .
Remarks on the Letter
.
A LEXANDER C UMMING .
A Sermon
.
A Curious and Authentic Account of the Remarkable Behaviour of Francis David Stirn
W. H. D ILWORTH .
Lord Anson’s Voyage Round the World
.
J AMES J ANEWAY .
Heaven Upon Earth
.
The New-England Psalter
.
J OHN P ERKINS .
An Essay on the Agitations of the Sea
.
D AVID R OWLAND .
Ministers of Christ
.
S OCIETY OF F RIENDS .
A Letter from a Meeting of the Brethren Called Quakers.
1762
J OSEPH B UCKMINSTER .
Ministers to be Pray’d For
.
Debtor and Creditor
.
B ENJAMIN F RANKLIN .
Advice to a Young Tradesman
.
W ILLIAM L IVINGSTON .
Philosophic Solitude
.
J OSEPH S ECCOMBE .
The Ways of Pleasure
.
A Serious-comical Dialogue
.
APPENDIX G
A Map of Jane’s Boston
Acknowledgments
Heartfelt thanks to the generous librarians, archivists, collectors, and curators who helped me write this book. People taught me how to stitch books. People showed me how to boil soap. People pored over old pages of manuscript. People wrote me the most unbelievable letters. Thank you.
The institutions to which many of these people belong are: the American Antiquarian Society; the American Philosophical Society; the Baker Library, Harvard Business School; the Beaman Memorial Public Library, West Boylston, Massachusetts; the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Firestone Library, Princeton University; the Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Yale University; the Franklin Public Library, Franklin, Massachusetts; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Houghton Library, Harvard University; the Library Company of Philadelphia; the Massachusetts Historical Society; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Nantucket Historical Association Research Library; the National Portrait Gallery; the New England Historic Genealogical Society; the New-York Historical Society; the New York Public Library; Old North Church; Old Sturbridge Village; the Paul Revere House; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Rhode Island Historical Society; the Rosenbach Museum and Library; the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts; Widener Library, Harvard University; and the Worcester Art Museum.
Thanks as well to everyone who answered more questions and suffered through more stories about Benjamin Franklin’s sister than anyone ever ought: Elise Broach, Steven Bullock, Heather Caldwell, Ellen Cohn, Nancy Cott, Amy Davidson, Roy Goodman, James Green, Charles Greifenstein, David Hall, John Hannigan, John Hench, Caitlin Hopkins, John Huffman, Julie Staples Johnson, Walter Johnson, Benjamin Kruskal, ShaneLandrum, Kelly L’Echyer, Susan Lehman, Bruce Mann, Martha McNamara, Liz and Zoe McNerney, Latif Nasser, Todd Pattison, William Reese, Charles Rosenberg, Anne Firor Scott, Gabriel Swift, Charles Van Doren, Gloria Whiting, Emily Wilkinson, Caroline Winterer, and Karin Wulf. Ellen Feldman, Maggie Hinders, and Jillian Verrillo at Knopf heroically shepherded through production a manuscript riddled with Jane’s spelling errors. Julie Miller was astonishingly shrewd, always. Special thanks to the unerringly judicious Janet Hatch. Most particular thanks to Tim, and to our little rogues.
This is a book about reading. Deepest thanks, then, to the people who, very kindly, read it: Adrianna Alty, Tina Bennett, John Demos, Dan Frank, Henry Finder, Jane Kamensky, Leah Price, and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
This book is dedicated to the memory of my mother, who taught me how to sew, and of my father, who once wrote the story of his life. He called it “The Diary of an Unknown.” On its last page, he wrote, “Everyone leaves a mark.” It turns out that he was right.
Notes
ABBREVIATIONS
People
BF
Benjamin Franklin
BM
Benjamin Mecom
CRG
Catharine Ray Greene
DRF
Deborah Read Franklin
JFM
Jane
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