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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) CCCLIII: TO MRS. JANE MECOM - The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. V Letters and Misc. Writings 1768-1772
CCCLIII: TO MRS. JANE MECOM - Benjamin Franklin, The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. V Letters and Misc. Writings 1768-1772 [1904]Edition used:The Works of Benjamin Franklin, including the Private as well as the Official and Scientific Correspondence, together with the Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography, compiled and edited by John Bigelow (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904). The Federal Edition in 12 volumes. Vol. V (Letters and Misc. Writings 1768-1772).
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- The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Volume V: Correspondence and Miscellaneous Writings
- 1768: CCCXXXIV: To M. Dubourg 1
- CCCXXXV: To John Winthrop
- CCCXXXVI: Petition of the Letter Z
- CCCXXXVII: To William Franklin
- CCCXXXVIII: To Joseph Galloway
- CCCXXXIX: To M. Dubourg. 1
- Cccxl: to Dupont De Nemours 1
- Cccxli: to John Alleyne, Esq.
- Cccxlii: a Scheme For a New Alphabet and Reformed Mode of Spelling With Remarks and Examples Concerning the Same, and an Enquiry Into Its Uses, In a Correspondence Between Miss Stevenson and Dr. Franklin, Written In the Characters of the Alphabet 1
- Cccxliii: to Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- Cccxliv: From Joseph Galloway to B. Franklin
- Cccxlv: to Miss Mary Stevenson
- Cccxlvi: to a Friend
- Cccxlvii: to Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- Cccxlviii: to Michael Collinson, Esq.
- 1769:CCCXLIX: To Lord Kames
- Cccl: to John Bartram
- Cccli: to M. Le Roy
- Ccclii: to Lord Kames
- Cccliii: to Mrs. Jane Mecom
- Cccliv: to Samuel Cooper, At Boston
- Ccclv: to John Winthrop
- Ccclvi: Positions to Be Examined, Concerning National Wealth
- Ccclvii: to Samuel Cooper
- Ccclviii: to Mrs. Jane Mecom
- Ccclxix: to the London Chronicle 1
- Ccclx: to Miss Mary Stevenson
- Ccclxi: to the Committee of Merchants In Philadelphia
- Ccclxii: to John Bartram
- Ccclxiii: to James Bowdoin
- Ccclxiv: to M. Dubourg 3
- Ccclxv: From Miss Mary Stevenson to B. Franklin
- Ccclxvi: to Miss Mary Stevenson
- Ccclxvii: to Cadwallader Evans
- Ccclxviii: to Samuel Cooper
- Ccclxix: On Ventilation
- Ccclxx: to Miss Mary Stevenson
- Ccclxxi: Queries By Mr. Strahan Respecting American Affairs, and Dr. Franklin’s Answers
- Ccclxxii: State of the Constitution of the Colonies 1
- Ccclxxiii: Observations On Passages In “an Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Disputes Between the British Colonies In America and Their Mother Country.”
- Ccclxxiv: Observations On Passages In a Pamphlet, Entitled “the True Constitutional Means For Putting an End to the Disputes Between Great Britain and the American Colonies.”
- 1770: Ccclxxv: to M. Dubourg 1
- Ccclxxvi: to John Bartram
- Ccclxxvii: to Miss Mary Stevenson
- Ccclxxviii: to Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal
- Ccclxxix: to Michael Hillegas
- Ccclxxx: to a Friend In America
- Ccclxxxi: to Samuel Cooper
- Ccclxxxii: to Miss Mary Stevenson
- Ccclxxxiii: to Jonathan Williams
- Ccclxxxiv: to Samuel Cooper 1
- Ccclxxxv: to Samuel Franklin
- Ccclxxxvi: to Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- Ccclxxxvii: to Samuel Rhoads
- Ccclxxxviii: to Mrs. Mary Hewson 1
- Ccclxxxix: to Cadwallader Evans
- CCCXC: The Craven-street Gazette 1
- CCCXCI: To M. Dubourg
- CCCXCII: To Dupont De Nemours
- CCCXCIII: To Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- CCCXCIV: From Deborah Franklin to B. Franklin
- CCCXCV: From Samuel Cooper to B. Franklin
- CCCXCVI: To Thomas Cushing 1
- CCCXCVII: To Mrs. Jane Mecom
- 1771: CCCXCVIII: To Thomas Cushing
- CCCXCIX: To Samuel Cooper
- CCCC: To Cadwallader Evans
- CCCCI: To Jonathan Williams
- CCCCII: To Mrs. Williams
- CCCCIII: To William Franklin
- CCCCIV: From Samuel Rhoads to B. Franklin
- CCCCV: To the Committee of Correspondence In Massachusetts 1
- CCCCVI: To Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- CCCCVII: To Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of Asaph
- CCCCVIII: To Noble Wimberly Jones
- CCCCIX: To Cadwallader Evans
- CCCCX: From Samuel Cooper to B. Franklin
- CCCCXI: To Samuel Franklin
- CCCCXII: To John Bartram
- CCCCXIII: To Cadwallader Evans
- CCCCXIV: To Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- CCCCXV: Plan For Benefiting Distant Unprovided Countries
- CCCCXVI: Concerning the Provision Made In China Against Famine 1
- CCCCXVII: To Mr. William Strahan
- CCCCXVIII: To Thomas Percival 1
- CCCCXIX: To Mrs. Mary Hewson
- 1772: CCCCXX: To Mrs. Jane Mecom
- CCCCXXI: To the Committee of Correspondence In Massachusetts
- CCCCXXII: To Samuel Cooper
- CCCCXXIII: To James Bowdoin
- CCCCXXIV: To Joshua Babcock
- CCCCXXV: To Thomas Cushing
- CCCCXXVI: To Samuel Franklin
- CCCCXXVII: To Ezra Stiles
- CCCCXXVIII: To Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- CCCCXXIX: To Mrs. Sarah Bache
- CCCCXXX: To William Franklin
- CCCCXXXI: Mayz, Or Indian Corn
- CCCCXXXII: Precautions to Be Used By Those Who Are About to Undertake a Sea Voyage
- CCCCXXXIII: Toleration In Old England and New England 1
- CCCCXXXIV: To John Foxcroft
- CCCCXXXV: To Cadwallader Evans
- CCCCXXXVI: From David Hume to B. Franklin
- CCCCXXXVII: To Thomas Cushing
- CCCCXXXVIII: To M. Le Roy
- CCCCXXXIX: To Joseph Priestley
- Ccccxl: to Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- Ccccxli: to Major Dawson, Engineer 1
- Ccccxlii: From Joseph Priestley to B. Franklin
- Ccccxliii: to Mr. Maseres
- Ccccxliv: From Joseph Priestley to B. Franklin
- Ccccxlv: to Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- Ccccxlvi: to William Franklin
- Ccccxlvii: to Governor Franklin, New Jersey
- Ccccxlviii: to William Franklin
- Ccccxlix: Report On Lightning-conductors For the Powder Magazines At Purfleet
- Ccccl: to Mr. Anthony Benezet, 1 Philadelphia
- Ccccli: Experiments, Observations, and Facts, Tending to Support the Opinion of the Utility of Long, Pointed Rods, For Securing Buildings From Damage By Strokes of Lightning.
- Cccclii: to Joseph Galloway
- Ccccliii: to Thomas Cushing
- Ccccliv: to Dr. Priestley
- Cccclv: to Miss Georgiana Shipley 1
- Cccclvi: the Art of Procuring Pleasant Dreams
- Cccclvii: to Mr. Bache
- Cccclviii: to John Bartram
- Cccclix: to Jonathan Williams
- Cccclx: to Lord Stirling
- Cccclxi: to Governor William Franklin
- Cccclxii: to Mr. Timothy
- Cccclxiii: to Thomas Cushing
- Cccclxiv: Preface By the British Editor
- Cccclxv: to Mrs. Deborah Franklin
- Cccclxvi: to Joseph Galloway
- Cccclxvii: to Mr. Abel James
- Cccclxviii: to William Franklin
- Cccclxix: Answer to M. Dubourg’s Queries Respecting the Armonica
- Cccclxx: Settlement On the Ohio River 1
CCCLIII
TO MRS. JANE MECOM
London, 23 February, 1769.
Your political disputes I have no objection to, if they are carried on with tolerable decency, and do not become outrageously abusive. They make people acquainted with their rights, and the value of them. But your squabbles about a bishop I wish to see speedily ended. They seem to be unnecessary at present, as the design of sending one is dropped; and, if it were not dropped, I cannot think it a matter of such moment as to be a sufficient reason for division among you, when there never was more need of your being united. I do not conceive, that bishops residing in America would either be of such advantage to Episcopalians, or such disadvantage to Anti-Episcopalians, as either seem to imagine.
Each party abuses the other; the profane and the infidel believe both sides, and enjoy the fray; the reputation of religion in general suffers, and its enemies are ready to say, not what was said in the primitive times, Behold how these Christians love one another,—but, Mark how these Christianshateone another! Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people about their victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.
B. Franklin.
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