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Autobiography and Other Writings


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Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific, and political efforts over a lifetime. This edition provides a new text of the "Autobiography", established with close reference to Franklin's original manuscript. It also includes a transcription of the 1726 journal.










Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D., F.R.S. &c. Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America at the Court of France, and for the Treaty of Peace and Independence with Great Britain, &c. &c. Written by Himself to a Late Period, and Continued to the Time of His Death, by His Grandson, William Temple Franklin. Comprising the Private Correspondence and Public Negotiations of Dr. Franklin. And His Select Political, Philosophical, and Miscellaneous Works. Published from the Original Mss. Vol. 1. [- 6.]


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