"Tue Lire, Diaries anp Corresron-DENCE OF Jane, Lapy FRanKkutn, 1792-1875." Edited by Willing-ham Franklin Rawnsley. Erskine While (Mr, Rawnsley modestly. disclaims having done more than "edit"? the diaries and letters' of the great. Arctic explorer's wife, he has, in fact, produced an eminently readable and—lucid memoir. Lady. Franklin was a convinced and incorrigible diarist, so much so that the task of selection from her journals must have been of considerable difficulty. She was one of the children of John Griffin, a wealthy silk-weaver of Spitalfields, who survived to the age of nearly 100. By an odd chance, Jane Griffin was a fmend of Sir John Franklin's first wife, who died in 1825 leaving one child, a daughter. Jane married Franklin on November 5, 1828, she
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