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| Introduction | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes on the Text | |
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| Maps: Franklin's Boston, Philadelphia, and London | |
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| The Text of the Autobiography | |
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| The Autobiography | |
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| "A Quire Book of Letters" | |
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| The Outline of the Autobiography | |
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| A Guide to People Mentioned in the Autobiography | |
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| Contexts | |
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| Journal of a Voyage, 1726 | |
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| Excerpts from Franklin's Letters Mentioning the Autobiography | |
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| "Authentic Memoir of Dr. Franklyn" | |
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| Excerpts From Franklin's Writings On Ambition And Fame, Wealth, And Self-Improvement | |
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| Ambition And Fame | |
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| From Poor Richard Improved, 1750 | |
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| From Poor Richard Improved, Jan. 1758 | |
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| To Sarah (Franklin) Bache, June 3, 1779 | |
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| From Benjamin Vaughn, May 1785 | |
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| From Jane Mecom, July 21, 1786 | |
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| Wealth | |
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| To Cadwallader Colden, Sept. 29, 1748 | |
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| To William Strahan, June 2, 1750 | |
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| To Jane Mecom, Dec. 30, 1770 | |
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| To Thomas Cushing, June 10, 1771 | |
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| Benjamin Vaughn to Lord Shelburne, Nov. 24, 1782 | |
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| To Robert Morris, Dec. 25, 1783 | |
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| To Benjamin Vaughn, July 26, 1784 | |
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| Last Will and Testament, 1788, and Codicil, 1789 | |
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| Self-Improvement | |
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| Franklin's Epitaph, 1728 | |
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| Franklin's Junto Query on Human Perfection, 1732 | |
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| [Poor Richard on Self-Improvement, 1749] | |
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| Rules for Making Oneself a Disagreeable Companion, 1749 | |
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| To Lord Kames, May 3, 1760 | |
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| To Abiah Franklin, Apr. 12, 1750 | |
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| To Joseph Priestley, Sept. 19, 1772 | |
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| Criticism Contemporary Opinions | |
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| [The Modern Prometheus] | |
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| To Franklin, May 10, 1762 | |
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| Franklin in the Cockpit | |
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| The Pennsylvania Gazette Report, 1774 | |
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| Benjamin Vaughn's Account, 1779 | |
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| To Count Patrick D'Arcy, Oct. 5, 1775 | |
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| From the New-Jersey Gazette, Dec. 31, 1777 | |
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| From Origins & Progress of the American Rebellion | |
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| To Franklin, May 1790 | |
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| Eulogy for Franklin before the National Assembly of France, 1790 | |
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| A Brief Eulogy for Benjamin Franklin, 1790 | |
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| Eulogy for Franklin to the Royal Academy of Sciences, Lisbon, 1791 | |
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| On Franklin, May 15, 1811 | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Opinions | |
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| From the Edinburgh Review, 1806 | |
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| From Literary Magazine, 1806 | |
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| To George and Georgiana Keats, Oct. 14-31, 1818 | |
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| Historical Sketch of Electrical Discovery | |
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| The Business Man | |
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| From Hunt's Autobiography | |
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| From Israel Potter | |
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| The Late Benjamin Franklin | |
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| [A Franklinian Poem], c. 1890 | |
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| FromThe Dial, May 1887 | |
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| From Editor's Study, Apr. 1888 | |
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| From Editor's Study, July 1888 | |
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| From Editor's Study, Jan. 1890 | |
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| From Editor's Easy Chair, Oct. 1905 | |
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| Recent Opinions | |
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| From The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | |
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| Benjamin Franklin | |
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| [The Classic Books of America] | |
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| Franklin and Science | |
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| The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: The Puritan Experimenter in Life and Art | |
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| Franklin: The Representational Politics of the Man of Letters | |
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| Benjamin Franklin: Printed Collections and Erasable Writing | |
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| Benjamin Franklin: A Chronology | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |