Contents
- The Text of the Autobiography
- The Autobiography
- Textual Notes
- Frankin’s Journey from Boston to Philadelphia, 1723
- The Outline of the Autobiography
- Biographical Notes
- Backgrounds
- Excerpts from Franklin’s Letters Mentioning the Autobiography
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- To Mathew Carey, August 10, 1786
- To the Duke de La Rochefoucauld, October 22, 1788
- To Benjamin Vaughan, October 24, 1788
- To William Vaughan, December 9, 1788
- To Benjamin Vaughan, June 3, 1789
- To Benjamin Vaughan, November 2, 1789
- To M. Le Veillard, November 13, 1789
- "Authentic Memoir of Dr. Franklin"
- Anecdotes Recorded by John Jay
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- [Robert Hunter Morris]
- [Andrew Hamilton]
- [Writing for the New Jersey Assembly]
- [Quaker Attitude toward Warfare]
- Excerpts from Frankin’s Writings On Wealth, The Art of Virtue, and Perfect
- Wealth
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- From Poor Richard, March, 1736
- To Cadwallader Colden, Philadelphia, September 29, 1748
- To Abiah Franklin, Philadelphia, April 12, 1750
- To William Strahan, Philadelphia, June 2, 1750
- To Peter Collinson, Philadelphia, November 5, 1756
- [Benjamin Rush on Franklin]
- To Jane Mecom, London, December 30, 1770
- To Thomas Cushing, london, June 10, 1771
- To David Hartley Passy, France, February 2, 1780
- Benjamin Vaughan to Lord Shelburne, Dover, November 24, 1782
- To Robert Morris, Passy, France, December 25, 1783
- To Benjamin Webb, Passy, France, April 22, 1784
- To Benjamin Vaughan, Passy, France, July 26, 1784
- [Private Property Is a Creature of Society, November, 1789]
- The Art of Virtue
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- [Poor Richard on Self-Improvement, 1749]
- To Lord Kames, May 3, 1760
- To Joseph Priestley, September 19, 1772
- Perfection
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- Franklin’s Epitaph, 1728
- [Franklin’s Junto Query on Human Perfection, 1732]
- [An Early Version of the Art of Virtue, 1758]
- [On Perfection in Human Institutions, 1770]
- [On Religious Tests for Citizenship, 1780]
- Criticism
- CONTEMPORARY OPINIONS
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- David Hume, David Hume to Franklin, Edinburgh, May 10, 1762
- Mather Byles, Mather Byles to Franklin, Boston, late 1765
- Franklin in the Cockpit, The Pennsylvania Gazette Report, 1774
- House of Lords, February 1, 1775, William Pitt, Lord Chatham vs. Jogn Montague, Lord Sandwich, on Franklin
- Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke to Count Patrick D’Arcy, October 5, 1775
- Peter Oliver, Excerpt from Origins · Progress of the American Rebellion
- Richard Price, Richard Price to Franklin, May 1790
- Anonymous, Excerpt from The Bee, February 27, 1793
- John Adams, John Adams on Franklin, May 15, 1811
- NINETEENTH-CENTURY OPINIONS
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- Joseph Dennie, From The Port Folio, 1801
- Franci, Lord Jeffrey, From the Edinburgh Review, 1806
- Charles Brockden Brown, From Literary Magazine, 1806
- John Foster, From The Eclectic Review, 1818
- John Keats, To George and Georgiana Keats, October 14-31, 1818
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Business Man
- Leigh Hunt, From Hunt’s Autobiography
- Herman Melville, From Israel Potter
- Anonymous, From The Nation, 1868
- Mark Twain, The Late Benjamin Franklin
- Frederick Jackson Turner, From The Dial, 1887
- William Dean Howells, From "Editor’s Study," April, 1888
- From "Editor’s Study," July, 1888
- From "Editor’s Study," January, 1890
- From "Editor’s Easy Chair," October, 1905
- TWENTIETH-CENTURY OPINIONS
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- Max Weber, Excerpt from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- D.H. Lawrence, Benjamin Franklin
- W. Somerset Maugham, [The Classic Books of America]
- Charles L. Sanford, An American Pilgrim’s Progress
- Robert Freeman Sayre, The Worldly Franklin and the Provincial Critics
- John William Ward, Who Was Benjamin Franklin?
- David Levin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: The Puritan Experimenter in Life and Art
- J.A. Leo Lemay, Franklin’s Autobiography and the American Dream
- Bibliography
- Key Editions of Franklin's Autobiography
- Abbreviations and Bibliography for the Annotations and the Biographical Notes
- A Selective, Annotated Bibliography of Twentieth-Century Criticism
- Authors
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