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Letters to the Joneses

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Humor · English

Read by Keith Salis

We watch our news and live our lives and see many things wrong with society today. It is easy for us to claim that things were better in "The Good Old Days."

It appears Solomon was correct when he said, "There is nothing new under the Sun," because Timothy Titcomb tackles many of the same societal ills in 1863 that we do today.

In Letters to the Joneses, we are privy to "letters" that a former Schoolmaster writes to various citizens of Jonesville. Each one deals with his pithy response to a fabricated individual who acts as a model of a type of person who is troubling himself and much of the town.

In his letters, we can find many of our own acquaintances and even ourselves. This would be fantasitc reading for young people today to learn what traits to avoid to help their own Jonesville to function as well as possible.

(Summary by Keith Salis)

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queue_music Chapters 25

  1. 1 00 - Preface 3:05
  2. 2 01 - First Letter - To Deacon Solomon Jones 19:59
  3. 3 02 - Second Letter - To Mrs. Martha Jones 20:10
  4. 4 03 - Third Letter - To F. Mendelssohn Jones 23:36
  5. 5 04 - Fourth Letter - To Hans Sachs Jones 18:55
  6. 6 05 - Fifth Letter - To Edward Payson Jones 22:04
  7. 7 06 - Sixth Letter - To Mrs. Jessy Bell Jones 20:07
  8. 8 07 - Seventh Letter - To Salathiel Fogg Jones, Spiritualist 23:14
  9. 9 08 - Eighth Letter - To Bejamin Franklin Jones, Mechanic 19:15
  10. 10 09 - Ninth Letter - To Washington Allston Jones 21:12
  11. 11 10 - Tenth Letter - To Rev. Jeremiah Jones, D.D. 22:04
  12. 12 11 - Eleventh Letter - To Stephen Girard Jones 20:07
  13. 13 12 - Twelfth Letter - To Noel Jones 20:25
  14. 14 13 - Thirteenth Letter - To Rufus Choate Jones, Lawyer 22:01
  15. 15 14 - Fourteenth Letter - To Mrs. Royal Purple Jones 22:37
  16. 16 15 - Fifteenth Letter - To Mrs. Felicia Hemans Jones 19:41
  17. 17 16 - Sixteenth Letter - To Jehu Jones 19:30
  18. 18 17 - Seventeenth Letter - To Thomas Arnold Jones, Schoolmaster 20:47
  19. 19 18 - Eighteenth Letter - To Mrs. Rosa Hommin Jones 19:38
  20. 20 19 - Ninteenth Letter - To Jefferson Davis Jones, Politician 23:03
  21. 21 20 - Twentieth Letter - To Dr. Benjamin Rush Jones 22:12
  22. 22 21 - Twenty-First Letter - To Diogenes Jones 15:45
  23. 23 22 - Twenty-Second Letter - To Saul M. Jones 17:54
  24. 24 23 - Twenty-Third Letter - To John Smith Jones 19:54
  25. 25 24 - Twenty-Fourth Letter - To Goodrich Jones, Jr. 19:06

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