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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

The Autobiography 1

I. Ancestry and Early Life in Boston 3

II. Beginning Life as a Printer 21

III. Arrival in Philadelphia 41

IV. First Visit to Boston 55

V. Early Friends in Philadelphia 69

VI. First Visit to London 77

VII. Beginning Business in Philadelphia 99

VIII. Business Success and First Public Service 126

IX. Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection 146

X. Poor Richard’s Almanac and Other Activities 169

XI. Interest in Public Affairs 188

XII. Defense of the Province 201

XIII. Public Services and Duties 217

XIV. Albany Plan of Union 241

XV. Quarrels with the Proprietary Governors 246

XVI. Braddock’s Expedition 253

XVII. Franklin’s Defense of the Frontier 274

XVIII. Scientific Experiments 289

XIX. Agent of Pennsylvania in London 296

Appendix

Electrical Kite 327

The Way to Wealth 331

The Whistle 336

A Letter to Samuel Mather 340

Bibliography

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The authoritative edition of Franklin’s autobiography, with a foreword by the eminent Franklin scholar Edmund S. Morgan

“The best and most beautiful edition [of the Autobiography].”—J. H. Plumb, New York Review of Books

“Among the many editions available—read Yale’s. Its text is the most reliable (the Franklin papers are at Yale) and its supplementary material is uniformly useful.”—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

A classic of eighteenth-century American history and literature, Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography has had an influence perhaps unequaled by any other book by an American writer. Written ostensibly as a letter to his son William, Franklin’s Autobiography offers his reflections on philosophy and religion, politics, war, education, material success, and the status of women.

Prepared by the editors of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, this definitive edition is drawn with scrupulous care from the original manuscript in Franklin’s handwriting, now in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. The introduction by Leonard W. Labaree places the autob

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

1791 book by Benjamin Franklin

Cover of the first English edition of 1793.
Author	Benjamin Franklin
Original title	Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin
Language	American English
Genre	Autobiography
Publisher	Buisson, Paris (French edition) J. Parson's, London (First English reprint)
Publication date	1791
Publication place	United States
Published in English	1793

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin appear to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written.

Franklin's account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods during which he wrote them. There are actual breaks between the first three parts of the narrative, but Part Three's narrative conti