GALLERY: LIT'RY MURALS

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BOOK REVIEW: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S INVENTIVE MIND

Undaunted Mind: The Intellectual Life of Benjamin Franklin 

Kevin J. Hayes

Published online:

 

17 April 2025

Published in print:

 

23 July 2025

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Undaunted Mind tells the story of Benjamin Franklin’s intellectual life from the books he read as a child to those he read as he continued his idiosyncratic program of self-education. As an apprentice in his brother’s printing house, Franklin’s intellectual life developed through his contact with his brother’s writerly friends. After running away to Philadelphia, Franklin developed a new group of friends, all of whom loved reading. While in London in his late teens, he met several important intellectuals who encouraged his intellectual pursuits. After returning to Philadelphia from London, he and some friends formed the Junto, a club for mutual improvement that made reading and writing important activities. He formed the Library Company of Philadelphia, the first subscription library in colonial America. As a printer, he read some of the best writing in the eighteenth century. He became a scientist, assembling a great scientific library, which helped his electrical research. Franklin founded the Philadelphia Academy, which would become the University of Pennsylvania. As an agent for the Pennsylvania Assembly, Franklin lived in London for many years, where he befriended some of Britain’s greatest minds. Different concentrations of books in his library reveal Franklin’s interests in travel and exploration, warfare, and slavery. His time in Paris gave Franklin another great intellectual experience, but he ultimately returned home to live the last five years of his life in Philadelphia, where he imparted his knowledge and experience to a new generation of Americans.

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THE INVENTIVE LIFE OF GEORGE H. McFADDEN

IN BOOKSHOPS SOON!

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The Inventive Life of George H. McFadden
Richard Carreño
Camino Books, Inc.
9781680980608              $35.00 Hardcover
https://www.caminobooks.com/ 

Richard Carreño’s biography of Philadelphia art collector John H.

 McFadden, John McFadden and his Age, provided a wealth of information

 applicable to art history in general and Philadelphia history in particular. 

McFadden himself provides the introduction to Carreño’s latest foray into

 biographical history, The Inventive Life of George H. McFadden. This book 

serves as a fitting companion volume, examining John’s Uncle George’s life

 of intrigue, mystery, adventure, and Philadelphia connections. 

This is not to say that either book should be limited to Pennsylvania readers

 and collections—not by a long shot. Indeed, especially in The Inventive Life

 of George H. McFadden, the value lies in Carreño’s ability to present contrasts

 in intellectual drive, psychological melancholy and isolation, closet homosexuality,

 and life contributions in such a manner that invites attention and inspection 

by audiences immersed in life stories and intellectual pursuits alike … not just

 Pennsylvanians or art students. 

George H. McFadden stood out from the proper Philadelphian in many ways. 

His different relationships and personas in disparate cultural groups, his shifting 

approach to “finding ancient things” that led him to sailing and travel experiences 

(and, ultimately, to a mysterious death), and his literary prowess all come to

 light in a revealing examination of a Renaissance Man whose intellectual pursuits

 were anything but ordinary. 

THE INVENTIVE LIFE OF GEORGE McFADDEN

FEAR AND LOATHING

Experiencing a buttoned-up, early 20th century childhood in Philadelphia, a hot-house of professional rivalries in  pre-war Cyprus, and the deadly uncertainties of WW II spy craft in the Middle East, George H. McFadden navigated a life that was always on the line.

The Inventive Life of George H. McFadden by Richard Carreño traces McFadden’s rocky journey from  an awkward beginning as the gay scion of wealth and prominence; to Cyprus as a famed University of Pennsylvania archaeologist of ancient Greek treasures; from war-time Germany to France, Greece, and, lastly, from Egypt where he faced down the Nazi war machine as an American spy. McFadden also found time in his abbreviated, multi-faceted life for work as an accomplished poet, a pioneering translator of Homer, and as a scholar of ancient Greece and German literature.

Past Favs

MIND THE GAP

By Richard Carreño

[WritersClearinghouse News Service] Posted 7 August 2014

San Francisco

San Francisco is well known for many things: Steve McQueen's blistering car chase in Bullitt. For the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, and huffing and puffing up (and down) Telegraph Hill. Its user-friendly public transportation system (refurbished, retired trolleys and, of course, its hokey cable cars). An odd comestible known as Rice-A-Roni (and its catchy 'San Francisco Treat' ad jingle). Levis are of course synonymous with the city, and so are the 49ers who wore them. And who can forget the still wet-behind the ears Michael Douglas debuting in the TV series The Streets of San Francisco? 

 

But I knew I was in for a different kind of 'treat' as I settled in with my cabin mates for my flight from Philly to SFO. The surrounding businessmen were clearly representatives of a new, evolving San Francisco, and one I hadn't known before. And my last visit was only five years ago. Sporting iPads, iPhones, laptops, ear-plugs, and headsets, these New-Age 49ers where hardly Rice-A-Roni types. My heavily-wired companions, of course, were newly-minted Silicon Valley standard-bearers, and I doubt they were iTuned to Tony Bennett waxing lyrical about leaving his heart in the 'City by the Bay.'

Welcome to San Francisco's corporate world of Google, PayPal, and Facebook -- and generic billion-dollar 'Googlers' from Instagram, Yelp, HubPages, Dropbox, Pinterest, Twitter, and dozens of other Internet sensations. If there were any Levis in sight, they were skinny jean versions, matched with shortie jackets, skinny ties, rectangular-shaped eyeglass frames, and other accouterments pinched from the pages of a recent J. Crew catalogue. Or, rather, this being San Francisco, Gap Inc and Banana Republic, also headquartered here.

Liverpool Learned Society Praises New Book on Local Art Collector John H. McFadden

John H. McFadden and His Age: Cotton and Culture in Philadelphia

Richard Carreño 304pp.19 black and white illustrations. Camino Books, Philadelphia, 2021. Available from Amazon £18.69 hardback. ISBN: 978-1680980394.

I consider myself a reasonably well-read amateur Liverpool historian but confess that, until recently, I had never heard of John H McFadden. And, I suspect, neither had any of my fellow local history friends. This despite the fact that he and brother George headed up the biggest firm of cotton dealers not just in Liverpool during the late Victorian and early Edwardian era when the city was indisputably “King Cotton”, but on both sides of the Atlantic. 

Like John Howard McFadden’s life itself, this is a book of two halves covering his early and later years in Philadelphia and his two decades or so in Liverpool when he was at the height of his cotton dealing powers. In spite of his business success and the great wealth that went with it, McFadden largely lived his life under the radar. So, it is thanks to Carreño that he has managed to tease out so much of the detail of his life. Aside from dealing in cotton futures, McFadden had three main passions, and the money to indulge them: medical research (of which Liverpool was a major beneficiary), polar exploration (and in particular Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton) and assembling an outstanding private collection of 18th and 19th century British paintings by the great masters, including one by Liverpool horse painter George Stubbs. 

McFADDEN: IN BOOKSHOPS IN LATE JUNE

Greetings Friends,

Many have inquired about the publication schedule of my new book, John H. McFadden and His Age: Cotton and Culture in Philadelphia. Whew, it's been a long and winding road!

Finally we have a firm publication date, 6 July. This means, I'm told by the publisher, Camino Books, that the book will be in bookshops in late June.

If you have any questions, please contact me anytime.

Warmest regards,

Richard

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JOHN H. McFADDEN AND HIS AGE (Camino Books, Summer 2021)

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PUBLICATION: CHRISTMAS 2020

John McFadden and His Age

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Coming Soon! John H. McFadden and His Age—Cotton and Culture in Philadelphia

John H. McFadden and His Age

Cotton and Culture in Philadelphia

By Richard Carreño

To be published by Camino in early 2020
Fully Illustrated
In a city permeated by Benjamin Franklin’s legacy, it is easy to believe that the Philadelphia Museum of Art is another of Philadelphia’s ancient and legendary cultural institutions. But unlike the Library Company (1731, thanks to Franklin’s inspiration), the American Philosophical Society (1743, Franklin again), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1805), the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (1814), and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (1887), the Philadelphia Museum of Art—as we perceive it today—is a relative youngblood: its colossal building atop Fairmount Hill opened in 1928. Yet the museum’s roots in fact are in the late nineteenth century, in the institution’s first incarnation as the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, chartered in 1876—making it among the defining institutions in the museology in the United States.

     The 1928 iteration of the Philadelphia Museum of Art was born in a time of tumultuous municipal transitional change. In a period of no more than thirty years, Philadelphia had reconsidered how money changed hands, who lived where, and how immigrant Americans would shape the city’s landscape. The museum’s founding was likewise messy: contentious, public, and expensive.
     Unlike the city’s other venerable cultural institutions, the Philadelphia Museum of Art was not the product of a single visionary, nor that of a coterie of affluent connoisseurs. Yet, one Philadelphian figured prominently in shaping the institution’s transformation: John H. McFadden. As the city’s—indeed, the country’s—grandest cotton king, McFadden is well-known as the donor of an important collection of British paintings to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Focusing on late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century portraits and landscapes, the John Howard McFadden Memorial Collection comprises a rich and unified group of forty-three paintings by artists such as Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable, and George Romney.

John H. McFadden and His Age

Prologue

Will

 1917

On an unusually balmy December day in 1917, John H. McFadden signed his will with a sense of success and modesty. His valet Robert Potts dutifully added his name as one of several witnesses. In 21st-century dollars, the Philadelphia cotton grandee and art patron was a multimillionaire; his estate, at more than $5.2-million ($73-million), [1] was bequeathed to his ‘beloved’ wife Florence and their three adult children. The eldest, Philip, was a high-goal polo player. Alice, the middle child, had a dilettante’s interest in the theatre. The youngest, John H. McFadden, Jr., or ‘Jack,’ was a former U.S. Army officer.

Despite his immense wealth, McFadden was a man of probity. He once told a friend that his aim in life was to create ‘lasting good.’ ‘Then I could die happy.’[2] On 2 December, a day before his 67th birthday, McFadden had that last mission in mind when he put a pen from his favorite stationer, Bailey, Banks & Biddle, to foolscap, and forever sealed the fate of his art collection as a gift to Philadelphia’s cultural patrimony. Or, maybe.

McFadden was an international ‘cotton man.’[3] Among only a handful of such commodity moguls in the late 19th century, he and his older brother, George, reigned over an empire that brokered and shipped raw American and Egyptian cotton worldwide. Millions of cotton bales made their way to mills in England and in New England, and millions of dollars made their way to the coffers of their family firm, Geo. H. McFadden & Bro., Cotton Merchants. [4] By the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898, the McFadden partnership, headed by George as managing director, had become the country’s largest cotton trading venture.

It further established itself as one of America’s first truly multi-national conglomerates,

with shipping and trading interests in Europe, Africa, and in South America. As the otherwise anonymous ‘Bro.,’ John McFadden headed the company’s key Liverpool subsidiary. A third brother, the youngest, got no billing. J. Franklin McFadden, was, like George, Philadelphia based. Like his nephew Philip, Frank, as he was known, was a poloist, enjoying the sport in the city’s Main Line suburbs and in Florida. Whatever their individual contribution, Geo. H. McFadden & Bro. ballooned into a prodigiously remunerative entity, making the three siblings millionaires many times over.

Book Review: Romance for the Beach

How to Walk Away

by Katherine Center

St Martins’s Press

By Jackie Atkins

Make no mistake about it, this is a Pantyhose Network book, a summertime-I’m-on-the-beach-don’t-kick-sand-in-my-face head turner. It is the hot book of the summer with a red cover, white type and a title reeking of duplicity. It will turn heads on a chair by the pool, or garner a second glance when left on a cubicle desk top. 

So much for the value of marketing. It is as close to fine literature as an QVC clothing special is to haute couture. If it weren’t for the endless chapters on hospital procedures and physical therapy methods, How to Walk Away would be a very nice read. Formula writing at its mediocre best, which is a shame because Katherine Center is a very talented scribe.

Her free flowing prose allows you to disregard the unethical story line and preposterousness of the young girl having everything (Maggie Jacobsen, defined by snagging a young up and coming fiancé and a job she is clearly unqualified to do) and loosing it all (courtesy of this man who walks on water) only to be swept away in the stoic arms of her physical therapist.

A Fairy Tale originally was defined as a story written for children. Now it is a saga, marked by seemingly unreal beauty, perfection, luck or happiness. 

This romance allows the Heroine to escape the domain of a me-sex- possessed-excessively-ambitious fiancé along with his meddlesome would be mother-in-law by clinging to a dreamboat moody Heathcliff of an aloof man with a Scottish brogue and possible Green Card problems. 

It has a happy and implausible ending. I am not here to wrap up the other plot line, which has to do with her runaway sister, except to say, this loony tale also is neatly wrapped up in a tidy package right about the time said Heroine flies to France to crash the wedding of her ex-fiancé to her ex-BFF.

 

When I read something like this I weep for my gender. This story line is as liberating to women and as smoking Virginia Slims.

 

First this modern lonesome tale of overcoming adversity is based on the old premise, “Some day my Prince will come.” True, this is a Romance but the hard cover does not mast the paper back Harlequin plot line. Worst the only thing which makes this modern is the apparent horniness of the heroine during courtship and the driving energy of her Type A, me-first fiancé to take charge. 

Although she clearly has a fear of flying (Erica Jong double entendre explained tediously in the first chapter) her doofus empathy free entitled man of her dreams insists she go with him on an evening flight even though he has no license to land in adverse conditions. And guess what happens next? Well, after he proposes, hands over his grandmother’s ring, bingo the winds pick up and he crash lands.  Right about here in real life on TV we should break for a commercial on glass smear proof dish washer pellets. Unfortunately if you are reading the book we are air lifted away to a hospital.

Where we have to scan monotonous medical procedures punctured by visits from family and Chip (yes that’s Mr. Dreamboat’s name) and Chip’s mother. Mommy is worried Chip’s has needs Maggie can no longer fulfill. She wants Maggie to call off the engagement. I this point, on cable, we would zip into a video on vaginal deodorant. In the book she throws the ring at her.

Now let’s cut to a liberated woman’s mentality, Harlequin readers. why, why, why can,t our heroine see the obvious handwriting on the wall?

 

The love of her life should be her lawyer. Throwing away a ring shouldn't end your relationship with Chip. It should tether him to your wheelchair pushing it with monthly checks from a structured settlement account on your winning law suit. That way he will always be a part of you and you to him and your attorney spouse, who is bound to you and your judgement payments. I know, just call me a romantic.

 

 

 

 

Soane & Town, Architects

MATCHED SETS

New Spaces Now Open at Soane Museum

Our 7 million pound restoration is now complete.

We’ve just got bigger (and even better!). Our 7-year programme of restoration is complete, returning the Museum to the original design of Sir John Soane. 

Previously ‘lost’ areas have been restored, and new spaces are open for the very first time. These include the Catacombs, the Regency-era kitchens, and our second temporary exhibition space – the Foyle Space. An astonishing 365 objects from our collection are now back on public display for the first time since Soane's death in 1837, and we're thrilled to say that the Museum now has full step-free access. 

-- Recent press release, the Sir John Soane Museum, London

Twin Libraries
The following is excerpted from Ithiel Town: An American Original by Richard Carreño, published by the Thompson, Connecticut, Historical Society (1995)


Much of Town's professional and personal life remains murky.  Perhaps the least known aspect of his life bridges his thirty-year career as a private book collector.  What is known is that during that time Town had amassed an architectural library of about 11,500 volumes, one of the premier collections on the topic anywhere.

According to Michael C. Quinn, "Town's fine arts collection had no peer in America, and probably rivaled European libraries of the day in its comprehensive scope of written and visual printed materials."

One measure of the leviathan size of Town's library is how it compared with comparable collections.  When Jefferson's library was sold to congress in 1815, it contained forty-three volumes in its architectural section.  Peter Harrison's collection numbered twenty-nine titles.  Even Bulfinch's library only tallied about twenty-seven texts.

The intimate size of these other libraries was in keeping with an early tradition of the working library.

Instead, Town became a collector -- a massive collector.  Perhaps unbeknownst to him, the British architect, Sir John Soane, was pioneering a similar effort in England.  Soane's collection, at 7,783 volumes, was sizeably smaller than Town's.  Yet both collectors were likely tapping the same book-selling sources in England and on the continent.

"Both men while requiring illustrated volumes for their professions, responded to the architectural book as an object precious in itself," according to Quinn.

In this context, Quinn has also noted Soane's departure from tradition.  His observation also serve for Town.

"Even though Soane certainly drew on the information contained in his architectural books, their sheer number broke decisively with the earlier tradition of the intimately known working library.  Sir John Soane had extended the instinct of the connoisseur and collector beyond actual works of art, to encompass printed materials devoted to architecture and to the fine arts."

In America, Town was the companion piece.  In published catalogs of the holdings, the collection is routinely referred to as "rare," "choice," "costly" "scarce," "valuable," "extensive," "elegant," and "splendid."

Because of Town's meticulous and driven need for acquisition, any definitive reason for Town's decision to dispose of the library in 1842 has remained a constant puzzle.  This, especially, since Town had built a stately house at 6 Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven (razed in 1942) to house his indulgence.

Quinn notes that Town had always planned to sell the collection citing an 1832 will.

Still mystifying is the timing.  Why just two years before his death in 1844 did he undertake the sale?  Did he have a precedent notion of his impending demise?

 

IN LONDON

BOOK BUYING
London
The best book buying deals in Britain are on-line. (A shameless plug for Philabooks|Booksellers). But when I'm replenishing my inventory, which I often do in London because of the ready availability of titles that suit my customers' tastes, I go for remainders.

As is the case in strictly used bookshops in America, discounts in similar London versions are usually no great bargain. (Overhead, etc.) I buy only when I make what I call 'a love connection.' In other words, a book I must have. The used bookshops I like best are in British Museum area.  

My favourite remainder spot is South Kensington Bookshop, in South Ken's museum district and French enclave. (It's located in the building complex attached to the South Kensington tube stop). Great titles, many just a year or two old, are be had up to fifty percent off list prices. At times, even greater discounts can be sighted. 

The shop seems to be open 'round the clock. At least, whenever I pop in. Service is pleasant and efficient. Highly recommended!

There was another remainder bookshop I used to go to, in Victoria directly across the south side of the station. It used to be a double hit, since I'd also visit the old Politico bookshop, off Victoria Street. (Long gone). Don't remember the name of this Victoria Station shop, and I'm wondering if it's still there. (Memo to self: Check it out on next buying trip).

Meantime, if you follow Philabooks at amazon.com, you'll see some new titles I've just listed. Or, go to PhilabooksBooksellers.blogspot.com. Call 1.215.385.3512 for even speedier service.
-- Richard Carreño

Books Received

Liberace's Filipino Cousin
By David R. Brubaker
ThingsAsian Press, 2016
$12.95 

David Brubaker knows and loves this corner of the world [the Philippines], and his passion for it is infectious. History, humor, and travel tips are brought together in his tantalizing glimpses oi this country of 7,000 islands and the delightful people who live there. As you read and laugh through pages, you'll be learning how to navigate your way through the crazy streets of Manila, how to travel country roads to meet an island witch who uses her powers to heal, how to join one of the most exclusive clubs on earth, and above all, how to enjoy your time in a country that is still off the beaten track for many travelers. -- From the cover

Book News: Vietnam Angst

War Saga in 60s Setting

 

Paris to Saigon

Lawrence J. Potesta

Amazon Kindle: Free (limited time) at amazon.com

 

It’s 1966, and Mickey Van escapes the jungles of Vietnam for a cushy post in Germany. James, his best friend, is black, alone, afraid and not so lucky as he fights for his life and sanity in the daily terror of the Hell known as 'Rice and Dice Land.' The letters that these two soldiers share are horrifying, bloody, and brutal as well as life preserving and morale boosting. Following a long and treacherous battle fighting the North Vietnamese, James is cut down by friendly fire and sent home to his sobbing mother in a flag draped coffin along with thousands of other sacrificial lambs.

Mickey Van, suffering from survivor’s guilt, trades his escapades in Paris for likely death as a Medevac helicopter pilot in the country that took James’ life. These choppers bearing giant red crosses taxi maimed and bleeding soldiers screaming for their gods and mothers to healing hands providing that they might someday see their grandchildren.

BOOK NOTES

RECOMMENDED SUMMER READING 

Northern Liberties: The Story of a Philadelphia River Ward (The History Press, 2012), by Harry Kyriakodis

ISBN-13: 978-1609496821

Since the time of William Penn, the Philadelphia neighborhood of Northern Liberties has had a tradition of hard work and innovation. This former Leni-Lenape territory became one of the industrial River Wards of North Philadelphia after being annexed by the city in 1854. The district's mills and factories were powered not just by the Delaware River and its tributaries but also by immigrants from across Europe and the city's largest community of free African Americans. The Liberties' diverse narrative, however, was marred by political and social problems, such as the anti-Irish Nativist Riots of 1844. Local historian Harry Kyriakodis traces over three hundred years of the district's evolution, from its rise as a premier manufacturing precinct to the destruction of much of the original cityscape in the 1960s and its subsequent rebirth as an eclectic and vibrant urban neighborhood. In this first history of Northern Liberties, Kyriakodis unearths the story of this remarkable riverside community.

BOOK NOTES

RECOMMENDED SUMMER READING

The Benjamin Franklin Parkway (2014, Arcadia Pub.), by Harry Kyriakodis

ISBN: 973-1-4671-2153-8. The Benjamin Franklin Parkway has sliced through the Logan Square neighborhood of Center City (downtown) Philadelphia since World War I. Named after Philadelphia's favorite son, the mile-long boulevard begins at City Hall and heads diagonally towards Logan Circle before reaching the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Parkway is the chief corridor for the city's cultural institutions and serves as the primary gateway to Philadelphia's renowned Fairmount Park. The postcards and other images in this work show the grand thoroughfare's development and its role in Philadelphia's civic and cultural life, despite it often serving as a speedway into and out of town. All told, the Ben Franklin Parkway is a triumph in urban planning and roadway design that has become a treasured part of the City of Brotherly Love.

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LORD OF HOSTS

THE LIFE OF SIR HENRY 'CHIPS' CHANNON

By Richard Carreño

 

IN LATE 1997, Alan Clark, then seventy-years-old, was preening as the Conservative Party's bête noire. Less to his liking was his other reputation as an aging Lothario. Both images were portrayed in an installment of Clark's tell-all diaries, the first published in 1993 as part of a trilogy that concluded in 2002.

 

I had written to Clark for an interview. Later I followed up with a phone call at his office in Westminster. Actually, I reached him at his house, Saltwood Castle, in Hyde, Kent. His positive response was immediate.

On a crisp autumn morning, I set out from my flat in Richmond on the District line to Parliament Square. This, for my meeting with one of the then stars of British political and cultural life. Clark was no one to underestimate. He often played the role of toff. One of better-known repartées during a political debate was to refer to his opponent as 'the kind of chap who needed to buy his own furniture.' (Whether he coined the retort or not, the barb still stung).

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Lord of Hosts

 

The Life of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon 

 

Richard Carreño

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