Letters to: John Alleyne Joshua Babcock Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg John Bartram John Baskerville Giambatista Beccaria Anthony Benezet William Brownrigg Peter P. Burdett Peter Collinson Samuel Cooper Jean Chappe d’Auteroche Cadwalader Evans Timothy Folger John Fothergill Deborah Franklin Peter Franklin Sarah Franklin William Franklin Joseph Galloway David Hartley Mary Stevenson Hewson David Hume Jaren Ingersoll Lord Kames John Lining William Marshall Samuel Mather Jane Mecom Oliver Neave Thomas Percival Joseph Priestley John Pringle Samuel Rhoads Hugh Roberts Benjamin Rush Anna Mordaunt Shipley Georgiana Shipley Margaret Stevenson Mary Stevenson Ezra Stiles William Strahan Charles Thomson Josiah Tucker John Waring George Whitefield
Paris, 1776-1785:
The Sale of the Hessians Model of a Letter of Recommendation The Twelve Commandments Petition of the Letter Z The Ephemera The Elysian Fields Bilked for Breakfast Passport for Captain Cook The Morals of Chess The Whistle The Levée Proposed New Version of the Bible Drinking Songs A Tale On Wine Dialogue Between the Gout and Mr. Franklin The Handsome and the Deformed Leg To the Royal Academy of ***** Notes for Conversation Supplement to the Boston Independent Chronicle Articles for a Treaty of Peace with Madame Brillon Apologue Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America Information to Those Who Would Remove to America An Economical Project Loose Thoughts on a Universal Fluid The Files
Letters to: The Abbé Soulavie John Adams Miss Alexander Sarah Bache Sir Joseph Banks Thomas Bond Edward Bridgen William Carmichael Court de Gebelin La Sabliere de la Condamine The Marquis de Lafayette Comte de Vergennes Charles de Weissenstein David Hartley Mary Hewson Lord Howe Samuel Huntington James Hutton William Jackson John Jay John Paul Jones Arthur Lee Robert R. Livingston Robert Morris William Nixon Elizabeth Partridge Richard Price Joseph Priestley William Strahan Emma Thompson Charles Thomson Benjamin Vaughan George Washington Benjamin Waterhouse Mason Locke Weems and Edward Gant George Whatley
Philadelphia, 1785-1790
A Petition of the Left Hand Description of an Instrument for Taking Down Books from High Shelves The Art of Procuring Pleasant Dreams The Retort Courteous
The Constitutional Convention Speech in the Convention on the Subject of Salaries Speech in a Committee of the Convention on the Proportion of Representation and Votes Motion for Prayers in the Convention Speech in the Convention at the Conclusion of its Deliberations
On Sending Felons to America A Comparison of the Conduct of the Ancient Jews and of the Anti-Federalists in the United States of America On the Abuse of the Press An Account of the Supremest Court of Judicature in Pennsylvania viz. The Court of the Press An Address to the Public from the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks Side Mehemet Ibrahim on the Slave Trade
Letters to: John Langdon Rev. John Lathrop Jane Mecom Jonathan Shipley Ezra Stiles Benjamin Vaughan Noah Webster John Wright
Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1733-1758
Poor Richard, 1733: Preface and Maxims Poor Richard, 1734: Preface and Maxims Poor Richard, 1735: Preface and Maxims Poor Richard, 1736: Preface and Maxims Poor Richard, 1737: Preface, “Hints for those that would be Rich,” Maxims Poor Richard, 1738: Preface, “By Mrs. Bridget Saunders,” Maxims Poor Richard, 1739: Preface and Maxims Poor Richard, 1740: Preface and Maxims Poor Richard, 1741: Maxims Poor Richard, 1742: Preface, Maxims, “Rules of Health and long Life,” “Rules to find out a fit Measure of Meat and Drink” Poor Richard, 1743: Preface and Maxims Poor Richard, 1744: Preface and Maxims Poor Richard, 1745: Preface and Maxims Poor Richard, 1746: Preface and Maxims Poor Richard, 1747: Preface and Maxims Poor Richard Improved, 1748: Preface, “Copernicus,” “Newton,” “Cromwell,” “Addison,” “Muschitos,” “Penn,” “Locke,” “Rawleigh,” “Happiness,” Maxims Poor Richard Improved, 1749: “Boyle,” “Speeches,” “Luther, “ “Of Sound,” “Nose of a Lady,” “Bacon,” “Calvin,” “Magna Charta,” “Wise counsel,” “Pride,” “Newton,” “How to get Riches,” Maxims Poor Richard Improved, 1750: Preface, “Writing,” Maxims Poor Richard Improved, 1751: Preface, “The Romans,” “The Microscope,” “Amusing Speculation,” Maxims Poor Richard Improved, 1752: Preface and Maxims Poor Richard Improved, 1753: Preface, Maxims, “How to secure Houses, &c. from Lightning” Poor Richard Improved, 1754: Preface and Maxims Poor Richard Improved, 1756: Preface, “On Saving Money,” “Settle thy Accounts,” Maxims Poor Richard Improved, 1757: Preface, “How to make a Striking Sundial,” “Sincerity,” “Jests,” “Studying,” “Paradoxes,” “Happiness,” “Learning,” Maxims Poor Richard Improved 1758: Preface (including “The Way to Wealth”), Maxims
The Autobiography
Writing has been of Great Use to me in the Course of my Life,” Benjamin Franklin said in his famous Autobiography. With characteristically calculated understatement, he attributed his enormous and varied successes to “my having learnt a little to scribble.”
This Library of America collection of Franklin’s works begins with letters sent from London (1757–1775) describing the events and diplomacy preceding the Revolutionary War. The volume also contains political satires, bagatelles, pamphlets, and letters written in Paris (1776–1785), where he represented the revolutionary United States at the court of Louis , as well as his speeches given in the Constitutional Convention and other works written in Philadelphia (1785–1790), including his last published article, a searing satire against slavery.
Also included are the delightfully shrewd prefaces to Poor Richard’s Almanack (1733–1758) and their worldly, pungent maxims that have entered our American culture. Finally, the classic Autobiography, Franklin’s last word on his greatest literary creation—his own invented personality—is presented here in a new edition, completely faithful to Franklin’s manuscript.
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