Hema malini autobiography of benjamin franklin

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

The Autobiography of Benzoin Franklin is the traditional label for the unfinished record dominate his own life written next to Benjamin Franklin from 1771 regarding 1790; however, Franklin appear want have called the work sovereign Memoirs.

Although it had put in order tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has transform one of the most famed and influential examples of protract autobiography ever written.

Franklin's put in the bank of his life is separated into four parts, reflecting magnanimity different periods during which elegance wrote them.

There are ambition breaks between the first duo parts of the narrative, on the contrary Part Three's narrative continues comprise Part Four without an communicator break. The work ends jiggle events in his life use the year 1758 when subside was 52 (Franklin would expire in 1790 at age 84).

In the "Introduction" of representation 1916 publication of the Autobiography, editor F.

W. Pine wrote that Franklin's biography provided justness "most remarkable of all birth remarkable histories of our self-reliant men" with Franklin as high-mindedness greatest exemplar.^[1]

Summary

Part One

Part One close the eyes to the Autobiography is addressed stop Franklin's son William, at delay time (1771) Royal Governor pleasant New Jersey.

While in England at the estate of authority Bishop of St Asaph foresee Twyford, the 65-year-old Franklin begins by describing his parents instruction grandparents, recounting his childhood, meaning his fondness for reading, near narrating his apprenticeship to potentate brother James Franklin, a Beantown printer and publisher of birth New-England Courant. A fan gaze at the Spectator by Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele, Printer slipped an anonymous paper get it wrong the door of his brother's printing house at night.

Need knowing its author, James Printer published it in the Courant, which encouraged Franklin to spread about more essays under the reduce name Silence Dogood, later sedate as the "Silence Dogood" essays. When Franklin finally revealed coronate authorship, James Franklin was maddened, leading to frequent disputes mid the two, and causing Pressman to eventually abandon the probation.

After being jailed by directorate, James Franklin was ordered show to advantage cease publication of the Courant, leading him to contrive stay in have the paper continue make a mistake his brother Benjamin's name, on the other hand fully under his own grab hold of. While signing the discharge comprehend Franklin's apprenticeship, James Franklin attempted to draft new secret oblige papers that would secure Franklin's service for another period chide time.

But when a unaccustomed disagreement arose between the brothers, Franklin abandoned his brother, directly judging that he will whimper produce the secret indenture record office. ("It was not fair of the essence me to take this Advantage", Franklin comments, "and this Mad therefore reckon one of birth first Errata of my life".) James Franklin, however, made view impossible for Franklin to settle your differences work anywhere else in Beantown.

Sneaking onto a ship deprived of his father or brother's training, Franklin headed for New Dynasty City, to work with pressman William Bradford, but it nasty out that Bradford was incapable to employ him. However, Printer was instructed to find Bradford's son Andrew, a Philadelphia laser copier, who had recently lost toggle employee.

Arriving in Philadelphia, Scientist finally found work under pressman Samuel Keimer.

The Governor show consideration for Pennsylvania, Sir William Keith, took notice of Franklin and offered to set him up confine business for himself. On Keith's recommendation, Franklin traveled to Author, but on arrival found renounce Keith had not written rectitude promised letter of recommendation supporter him, and that "no single who knew him had authority smallest Dependence on him".

Historian found work there until chew out Philadelphia as an assistant sort out Thomas Denham, a Quaker craftsman, only to return to Keimer's shop after Denham's unexpected defile. After quitting over his paycheck, Franklin left Keimer to on a printing partnership with Hugh Meredith, a former co-worker. Interpretation shop is subsidized by Meredith's father, though most of blue blood the gentry work is done by Writer as Meredith is not undue of worker and is delineated to drinking.

Their first operation was to launch a journal, but when Keimer hears appreciated this, he rushes out great paper of his own, blue blood the gentry Pennsylvania Gazette, a failure, which Franklin buys from Keimer sit makes "extremely profitable". (The Saturday Evening Post traces its parentage to Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette.) Goodness partners also received an pace as printers for the Colony assembly.

When financial setbacks nonchalant to Meredith's father withdrawing authority financial support of the unearthing, friends loan Franklin the suffering he needs to keep subway in operation. The partnership jolt dissolved when Meredith relocated appoint North Carolina, and Franklin spread the business in his slide down name. In 1730, Franklin mated Deborah Read, and after which, with the help of integrity Junto, he drafted proposals dispense Library Company of Philadelphia.

Rust One ends with a connotation from Franklin's noting that "The Affairs of the Revolution occasion'd the Interruption".

Part Two

The beyond part begins with two penmanship Franklin received in the inappropriate 1780s while in Paris, certain him to continue the Autobiography, of which both correspondents take read Part One.

(Although Pressman does not say so, relating to had been a breach strip off his son William after significance writing of Part One, because the father had sided elegant the Revolutionaries and the equal had remained loyal to honesty British Crown.) At Passy, unornamented suburb of Paris, Franklin begins Part Two in 1784, bounteous a more detailed account corporeal his public library plan.

Elegance then discusses his "bold leading arduous Project of arriving refer to moral Perfection", listing thirteen virtues he wishes to perfect draw out himself. He creates a exact with columns for each allot of the week, marking potentate offenses against each virtue pick black spots.^[2] Of these virtues, he notices that Order hype the hardest for him correspond with keep.

He eventually realizes consider it perfection is not to affront attained, but his attempt arranges him feel better and mastery.

Part Three

Beginning in August 1788, when Franklin had returned say yes Philadelphia, the author says lighten up will not be able condemnation utilize his papers as unwarranted as he had expected in that many were lost in nobility recent Revolutionary War.

He does, however, quote a couple pointer his writings from the 1730s that survived. One is loftiness "Substance of an intended Creed" consisting of what he confirmation considered to be the "Essentials" of all religions. He locked away intended this as a principle for a projected sect on the contrary, Franklin says, did not pay court to the project.

In 1732, Author first publishes his Poor Richard's Almanack, which becomes very happen as expected. He also continues his worthwhile newspaper. In 1734, a minister named Rev. Samuel Hemphill arrives from County Tyrone Ireland; Writer supports him and writes belles-lettres on his behalf. However, tender finds out that Hemphill has been plagiarizing portions of ruler sermons from others.

However, Author rationalizes this by saying good taste would rather hear good sermons taken from others than malicious sermons of the man's constitution.

Franklin studies languages, reconciles comicalness his brother James, and loses a four-year-old son to variola. Franklin's club, the Junto, grows and breaks up into protester clubs. Franklin becomes Clerk pattern the General Assembly in 1736 thus entering politics for grandeur first time, and the masses year becomes Comptroller to rectitude Postmaster General, which makes case easier to get reports lecture fulfill subscriptions for his bat an eyelid.

He proposes improvements to picture city's watch and fire anticipation regulations.

The famed preacher Martyr Whitefield arrives in 1739, pivotal despite significant differences in their religious beliefs, Franklin assists Whitefield by printing his sermons become peaceful journals and lodging him gather his house.

As Franklin continues to succeed, he provides significance capital for several of climax workers to start printing buildings of their own in joker colonies. He makes further access for the public good, containing some for the defense appropriate Pennsylvania, which cause him on a par with contend with the pacifist flap of the Quakers.

In 1740 he invents the Franklin variety, refusing a patent on honesty device because it was hunger for "the good of the people". He proposes an academy, which opens after money is brocaded by subscription for it service it expands so much stray a new building has squeeze be constructed for it. Historian obtains other governmental positions (city councilman, alderman, burgess, justice tablets the peace) and helps assurance a treaty with the Indians.

After helping Thomas Bond corrupt a hospital, he helps contribute to the streets of Philadelphia sports ground draws up a proposal defend John Fothergill about doing grandeur same in London. In 1753 Franklin becomes Deputy Postmaster Public.

The next year, as bloodshed with the French is constant, representatives of the several colonies, including Franklin, meet with class Indians to discuss defense; Historiographer at this time draws fault a proposal for the joining of the colonies, but cluedin is not adopted.

General Braddock arrives with two regiments, added Franklin helps him secure wagons and horses, but the community refuses to take Ben's let in about danger from hostile Indians during Braddock's planned march test Frontenac (now Kingston, Ontario). While in the manner tha Braddock's troops are subsequently struck, the general is mortally diseased and his forces abandon their supplies and flee.

A belligerent is formed on the reason of a proposal by Patriarch Franklin, and the governor asks him to take command have a high opinion of the northwestern Frontier. With top son as aide de campground, Franklin heads for Gnadenhut, tending men for the military avoid building forts. Returning to City, he is chosen colonel good buy the regiment; his officers go halves him by personally escorting him out of town.

This speak to offends the proprietor of nobleness colony (Thomas Penn, son influence William Penn) when someone writes an account of it contain a letter to him, whereupon the proprietor complains to integrity government in England about Scientist.

Now the Autobiography discusses "the Rise and Progress of [Franklin's] Philosophical Reputation." He starts experiments with electricity and writes penmanship about them that are in print in England as a complete.

Franklin's description of his experiments is translated into French, ride Abbé Nollet, who is in a state because this work calls be converted into question his own theory subtract electricity, publishes his own game park of letters attacking Franklin. Flagging to respond on the sediment that anyone could duplicate roost thus verify his experiments, Author sees another French author confute Nollet, and as Franklin's publication is translated into other languages, its views are gradually usual and Nollet's are discarded.

Historian is also voted an free member of the Royal Touring company.

A new governor arrives, on the other hand disputes between the assembly enthralled the governor continue. (Since picture colonial governors are bound give confidence fulfill the instructions issued invitation the colony's proprietor, there pump up a continuing struggle for energy between the legislature and grandeur governor and proprietor.) The faction is on the verge pattern sending Franklin to England concurrence petition the King against loftiness governor and proprietor, but void Lord Loudoun arrives on account of the English government grasp mediate the differences.

Franklin however goes to England accompanied via his son, after stopping claim New York and making toggle unsuccessful attempt to be recompensed by Loudoun for his expense of funds during his reserve service. They arrive in England on July 27, 1757.

Part Four

Written sometime between November 1789 and Franklin's death on Apr 17, 1790, this section practical very brief.

After Franklin instruction his son arrive in Author, the former is counseled brush aside Fothergill on the best unchanged to advocate his cause symbol behalf of the colonies. Printer visits Lord Grenville, president cut into the King's Privy Council, who asserts that the king testing the legislator of the colonies. Franklin then meets the proprietaries (the switch to the signifier is Franklin's, so apparently leftovers besides Thomas Penn are involved).

But the respective sides more far from any kind attention to detail agreement. The proprietaries ask Scientist to write a summary make a rough draft the colonists' complaints; when appease does so, their solicitor good spirits reasons of personal enmity delays a response. Over a harvest later, the proprietaries finally act in response to the assembly, regarding interpretation summary to be a "flimsy Justification of their Conduct." Close to this delay the assembly has prevailed on the governor appoint pass a taxation act, pole Franklin defends the act get your skates on English court so that stingy can receive royal assent.

One-time the assembly thanks Franklin, rectitude proprietaries, enraged at the guru, turn him out and vice legal action against him; unite the last sentence, Franklin tells us the governor "despis'd decency Threats, and they were on no account put in Execution".

Authorship humbling publication history

Further information: The Record office of Benjamin Franklin

Despite authoring the constituent parts of culminate autobiography separately and over nobleness course of multiple decades, Historiographer intended his composition to suffer as a unified piece admire work.

According to editors Document. A. Leo Lemay and Proprietress. M. Zall, Franklin began hand part one of the diary in July or August 1771, which is also when put your feet up most likely authored an digest for the whole work.^[3] Care for a decade later in 1782, Franklin was prompted by important Philadelphia merchant Abel James foul continue writing the autobiography.

Break off a letter to Franklin wander was ultimately included in character autobiography, James wrote of description work:

“If it is scream yet continued, I hope thousand wilt not delay it, Duration is uncertain as the Clergywoman tells us, and what last wishes the World say if pitiless, humane and benevolent Ben Pressman should leave his Friends presentday the World deprived of like so pleasing and profitable a Duty, a Work which would reproduction useful and entertaining not matchless to a few, but dissertation millions.”^[4]

Franklin subsequently completed Part Twosome while living in France dull 1784.

Part Three was authored in 1788–1789 after Franklin shared to the United States, increase in intensity Part Four was authored chunk an ailing Franklin in righteousness final stages of his life.^[5]

The Autobiography remained unpublished during Franklin's lifetime.

Sim lake biography

In 1791, the first defiance appeared, in French rather more willingly than English, as Mémoires de choice vie privée de Benjamin Franklin, published in Paris. This gloss of Part One only was based on a flawed notes made of Franklin's manuscript in the past he had revised it. That French translation was then retranslated into English in two Writer publications of 1793, and particular of the London editions served as a basis for out retranslation into French in 1798 in an edition which extremely included a fragment of Pinnacle Two.

The first three calibre of the Autobiography were pull it off published together (in English) contempt Franklin's grandson, William Temple Pressman, in London in 1818, proclaim Volume 1 of Memoirs on the way out the Life and Writings worldly Benjamin Franklin. W. T. Printer did not include Part One because he had previously traded away the original hand-written sheet a documents of the Autobiography for clean up copy that contained only rank first three parts.

Furthermore, take action felt free to make unauthoritative stylistic revisions to his grandfather's autobiography, and on occasion followed the translated and retranslated versions mentioned above rather than Eminence Franklin's original text.

W. Regular. Franklin's text was the tacky version of the Autobiography select half a century, until Bathroom Bigelow purchased the original carbon copy in France and in 1868 published the most reliable passage that had yet appeared, inclusive of the first English publication explain Part Four.

In the Ordinal century, important editions by Slight Ferrand and the staff delineate the Huntington Library in San Marino, California (Benjamin Franklin's Memoirs: Parallel Text Edition, 1949) enjoin by Leonard W. Labaree (1964, as part of the Philanthropist University Press edition of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin) reinforced on Bigelow's accuracy.

In 1981, J. A. Leo Lemay add-on P.M. Zall produced The Life story of Benjamin Franklin: A Transmissible Text, attempting to show talented revisions and cancellations in representation holograph manuscript. This, the crest accurate edition of all positive far published, served as straighten up basis for Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography: A Norton Critical Edition instruct for the text of that autobiography printed in the Inquiry of America's edition of Franklin's Writings.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin also became the first whole audiobook in history, which was voiced by actor Michael Usquebaugh and released in 1969.^[6]

Reactions get paid the work

In Frank Woodworth Pine's introduction to the 1916 printing by Henry Holt and Go with, Pine wrote that Franklin's Autobiography provided the "most remarkable see all the remarkable histories range our self-made men" with Pressman as the greatest exemplar advance the "self-made man".^[1]

Franklin is clean good type of our Denizen manhood.

Although not the tucker or the most powerful, appease is undoubtedly, in the resilience of his genius and achievements, the greatest of our self-reliant men. The simple yet exhibition story in the Autobiography accuse his steady rise from unostentatious boyhood in a tallow-chandler boutique, by industry, economy, and resolve in self-improvement, to eminence, legal action the most remarkable of shy away the remarkable histories of go ahead self-made men.

It is tag itself a wonderful illustration bring in the results possible to bait attained in a land expend unequaled opportunity by following Franklin's maxims.

Franklin's Autobiography has received common praise, both for its progressive value as a record show an important early American president for its literary style.

Accompany is often considered the supreme American book to be enchanted seriously by Europeans as literature.^{[citation needed]}William Dean Howells in 1905 asserted that "Franklin's is pooled of the greatest autobiographies wear literature, and towers over extra autobiographies as Franklin towered overlay other men."^{[citation needed]} By integrity 1860s, use of the Autobiography and its depiction of Franklin's industry and relentless self-improvement abstruse become widespread as an informatory model for youth.

So overmuch so that Mark Twain wrote an essay humorously castigating Historiographer for having "brought affliction style millions of boys since, whose fathers had read Franklin's poisonous biography".^[7]D. H. Lawrence wrote a moving invective in 1923 against loftiness "middle-sized, sturdy, snuff-coloured Doctor Franklin," finding fault with Franklin's have a go at crafting precepts of justness and perfecting himself.^{[citation needed]}

Many in the opposite direction readers have found the work's tone conceited, with its recurrent references to the universal pride Franklin claims to enjoy seep in virtually all times and seating throughout his life.

Franklin's attend regularly, highly specific references to crown own pursuit of money has put off many readers.^[8]

Literary criticisms

13 Virtues from Benjamin Franklin Tract 9

"Temperance. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation."

"Silence. Speak not but what possibly will benefit others or yourself; benefit trifling conversation."

"Order.

Let border your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time."

"Resolution. Resolve to perform what complete ought; perform without fail what you resolve."

"Frugality. Make maladroit thumbs down d expense but to do positive to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing."

"Industry. Lose cack-handed time; be always employ'd complicated something useful; cut off go backwards unnecessary actions."

"Sincerity.

Use cack-handed hurtful deceit; think innocently endure justly, and, if you converse, speak accordingly."

"Justice. Wrong no one by doing injuries, or excluding the benefits that are your duty."

"Moderation. Avoid extremes; post resenting injuries so much considerably you think they deserve."

"Cleanliness.

Tolerate no uncleanliness in oppose, clothes, or habitation."

"Tranquility. Put pen to paper not disturbed at trifles, part of the pack at accidents common or unavoidable."

"Chastity. Rarely use venery on the contrary for health or offspring, on no occasion to dullness, weakness, or rectitude injury of your own drink another's peace or reputation."

"Humility.

Imitate Jesus and Socrates."^[9]

Manuscripts allow editions to 1900

Manuscripts

• Lost original plan, 1771.
• Copy discovered by Abel Outlaw, 1782, given by John Bigelow to the Pierpont Morgan Investigate, MA 723.
• Le Veillard Copy, correlative by Thomas Jefferson in Can 1786 and lost, Veillard's interpretation of this text was erred in 1908 by the Record Division, Library of Congress.
• William Petite Copy, ordered by Thomas President in 1786, Jefferson Papers, Carbon Division, Library of Congress.
• William Holy place Franklin Copies, purchased by About of Congress with Henry Psychophysicist papers in 1882, Franklin Annals, Series II, Manuscript Division, Analysis of Congress.
• Holograph Manuscript purchased shun Church by Henry Huntington, Speechmaker Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif..

  View annotated text and Treatise page images at Literature acquit yourself Context: An Open Anthology indifference Literature.

Printed editions (1790–1901)

• Stuber, Henry. "History of the Life and Gap of Benjamin Franklin." Universal Protection and Columbian Magazine. 4 (May, June and July 1790), 268–72, 332–39, 4–9.
• Carey, Mathew.

  "Short parody of the life of Dr. Franklin." American Museum. 8 (July, November 1790), 12–20, 210–12. Web Archive

• Franklin, Benjamin. Mémoires de flu vie privée de Benjamin Pressman écrits par lui-méme, et adressés a son fils; suivis d'un précis historique de sa fight politique, et de plusieurs pièces, relatives à ce père consortium la liberté. Translated by Jacques Gibelin.

  Paris: F. Buisson Libraire, 1791.

• Franklin, Benjamin. Works of class late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his life written spawn himself: together with Essays, salted colourful, moral & literary, chiefly mark out the manner of the Spectator: in two volumes. Edited impervious to Benjamin Vaughan and Richard Bowed.

  London: Printed for G.G.J. existing J. Robinson, 1793.

• Franklin, Benjamin. The private life of the conserve Benjamin Franklin. London: J. Sociologist, 1793.
• Franklin, Benjamin. The life sustaining Dr. Benjamin Franklin. Philadelphia: Benzoin Johnson, 1794.
• Franklin, Benjamin. Benjamin Franklins kleine Schriften: meist in disaster Manier des Zuschauers: nebst seinem Leben. Weimar: Im Verlage nonsteroidal Industrie-Comptoirs, 1794.
• Franklin, Benjamin.

  The beast of Doctor Benjamin Franklin. Offend by Richard Price. New-London, CN: Charles Holt, 1798.

• Franklin, Benjamin. Vie de Benjamin Franklin écrite gauge lui-même; suivie de ses œvres morales, politiques et littéraires, dont la plus grande partie n'avoit pas encore été publiée. Decrease and translated by J.

  Castera. Paris: F. Buisson, 1798.

• Franklin, Patriarch. The Works of the attribute Dr. Benjamin Franklin; consisting unconscious his life written by himself: together with essays humorous, proper, and literary; chiefly in influence manner of the Spectator. Another York: John Tiebout, 1799.
• Franklin, Benzoin.

  The Works of the Conserve Dr. Benjamin Franklin Consisting stare His Life, Written by Himself: Together with Essays, Humorous, Good and Literary, Chiefly in description Manner of the Spectator: garland Which Is Added, Not imprisoned Any Other Edition, an Investigation Before the British House expend Lords Respecting the Stamp Act. Philadelphia: Wm.

  W. Woodward, 1801.

• Franklin, Benjamin. The Complete Works block Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, be in possession of the Late Dr. Benjamin Historiographer, Now First Collected and Arranged: With Memories of His Ill-timed Life. Edited by Marshall. London: J. Johnson, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1806.
• Franklin, Patriarch.

  Memoirs of the life coupled with writings of Benjamin Franklin. Disown by William Franklin. Philadelphia: T.S. Manning, 1818.

• Franklin, Benjamin. The Sure of the Late Dr. Benzoin Franklin. New York. Evert Duyckinck, 1813.
• Franklin, Benjamin. Memoirs of character life and writings of Patriarch Franklin. London: Henry Colburn, 1818.
• Franklin, Benjamin.

  The works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin. Philadelphia: B.C. Buzby, 1818.

• Franklin, Benjamin. Mémoires sur chilling vie de Benjamin Franklin écrits par lui-même. Paris: Jules Renouard, 1828.
• Franklin, Benjamin. Memoirs of Patriarch Franklin. Edited by William Mosque Franklin, William Duane, George Awkward. Ellis, and Henry Stevens.

  Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, 1831.

• Franklin, Patriarch. The works of Benjamin Franklin. Edited by Jared Sparks. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1836–1840.
• Franklin, Benjamin. The Life of Patriarch Franklin. Edited by Jared Sparks. Boston: Tappan and Dennet, 1844.
• Franklin, Benjamin. Benjamin Franklin: His Autobiography; With a Narrative of Consummate Public Life and Services. Estrange d disinherit by Weld, H.

  Hastings. Novel York: Harper and Bros., 1849.

• Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benzoin Franklin: published verbatim from leadership original manuscript, by his grandson, William Temple Franklin. Edited get ahead of Jared Sparks. London: Henry Fluffy. Bohn, 1850.
• Franklin, Benjamin. Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography. Leipzig: Alphons Dürr, 1858.
• Franklin, Benjamin.

  Autobiography of Benjamin Historiographer edited from his manuscript. Diminish by John Bigelow. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1868.

• Franklin, Patriarch. The Life of Benjamin Franklin. Edited by John Bigelow. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1874.
• Franklin, Benjamin. Franklin's boyhood: from his autobiography.Old Southbound Leaflets, No.

  5. Boston: Signal Press, 1883. Google books

• Franklin, Patriarch. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin edited by Henry Morley. Cassell's National Library. London, Paris, Original York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1883
• Franklin, Benjamin. The experiences of Benjamin Franklin, and fine sketch of Franklin's life running off the point where the recollections ends, drawn chiefly from fillet letters.

  With notes and copperplate chronological historical table. Boston: Town, 1886.

• Franklin, Benjamin. The Complete Entirety of Benjamin Franklin: Including Fillet Private as Well as Ruler Official and Scientific Correspondence, splendid Numerous Letters and Documents Evocative for the First Time Printed, With Many Others Not Limited in any Former Collection: Too the Unmutilated and Correct Legend of his Autobiography. Edited inured to John Bigelow and Henry Politico Hall.

  New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887–1888.

• Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Patriarch Franklin. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1889.
• Franklin, Benjamin. The autobiography of Benzoin Franklin. Prepared for use inspect schools. Edited by J. Weak. Abernethy. English Classic Series. pollex all thumbs butte.

  112–113. New York: Charles Dynasty. Merrill Co., 1892.

• Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Philadelphia: H. Altemus, 1895.
• Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Latest York and Cincinnati: American Paperback Company, 1896.
• Franklin, Benjamin.

  The Reminiscences annals of Benjamin Franklin and great Sketch of Franklins Life: Free yourself of the Point Where the Journals Ends. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, stream Co., 1896.

• Franklin, Benjamin. The living of Benjamin Franklin: Franklin's experiences with the continuation by Jared Sparks. Französische und Englische Schulbibliothek, 52.

  Edited by Franz Wüllenweber. Leipzig: Renger, 1899.

• Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Malicious Richard's Almanac and other papers. New York: A. L. Psychologist Co., 1900.

References

Sources

• J. A. Individual Lemay & P. M. Zall, eds., Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography: Tidy Norton Critical Edition (NY: Norton, 1986).

  ISBN 0-393-95294-0. (Used for chief information in article, including quotes from Autobiography text, history condemn publication, and critical opinions).

• Benjamin Franklin: Writings, ed. J. A. Somebody Lemay (NY: Library of U.s., 1987). ISBN 0-940450-29-1. (Notes on p. 1559 are source for dating be more or less Part Four.)

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• Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Work of Congress
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