The Life and Letters of John Paul Jones, Volume 1The author of this volume from the early 20th century makes references to other scholarly biographies about John Paul Jones in her introduction. As the father of the U.S. Navy, Jones has been the subject of many biographical studies, and this one, in two volumes, includes much of Jones' personal correspondence. |
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| Title | The Life and Letters of John Paul Jones, Volume 1 The Life and Letters of John Paul Jones, Anna De Koven |
| Author | Anna De Koven |
| Publisher | C. Scribner's Sons, 1913 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Dec 4, 2007 |
| Length | 503 pages |
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