| Acknowledgments Introduction Note on the Text The Text of the Autobiography The Autobiography Textual Notes Frankin’s Journey from Boston to Philadelphia, 1723 The Outline of the Autobiography Biographical Notes Backgrounds Excerpts from Franklin’s Letters Mentioning the Autobiography To Mathew Carey, August 10, 1786 To the Duke de La Rochefoucauld, October 22, 1788 To Benjamin Vaughan, October 24, 1788 To William Vaughan, December 9, 1788 To Benjamin Vaughan, June 3, 1789 To Benjamin Vaughan, November 2, 1789 To M. Le Veillard, November 13, 1789 "Authentic Memoir of Dr. Franklin" Anecdotes Recorded by John Jay [Robert Hunter Morris] [Andrew Hamilton] [Writing for the New Jersey Assembly] [Quaker Attitude toward Warfare] Excerpts from Frankin’s Writings On Wealth, The Art of Virtue, and Perfect Wealth From Poor Richard, March, 1736 To Cadwallader Colden, Philadelphia, September 29, 1748 To Abiah Franklin, Philadelphia, April 12, 1750 To William Strahan, Philadelphia, June 2, 1750 To Peter Collinson, Philadelphia, November 5, 1756 [Benjamin Rush on Franklin] To Jane Mecom, London, December 30, 1770 To Thomas Cushing, london, June 10, 1771 To David Hartley Passy, France, February 2, 1780 Benjamin Vaughan to Lord Shelburne, Dover, November 24, 1782 To Robert Morris, Passy, France, December 25, 1783 To Benjamin Webb, Passy, France, April 22, 1784 To Benjamin Vaughan, Passy, France, July 26, 1784 [Private Property Is a Creature of Society, November, 1789] The Art of Virtue [Poor Richard on Self-Improvement, 1749] To Lord Kames, May 3, 1760 To Joseph Priestley, September 19, 1772 Perfection Franklin’s Epitaph, 1728 [Franklin’s Junto Query on Human Perfection, 1732] [An Early Version of the Art of Virtue, 1758] [On Perfection in Human Institutions, 1770] [On Religious Tests for Citizenship, 1780] Criticism CONTEMPORARY OPINIONS David Hume, David Hume to Franklin, Edinburgh, May 10, 1762 Mather Byles, Mather Byles to Franklin, Boston, late 1765 Franklin in the Cockpit, The Pennsylvania Gazette Report, 1774 House of Lords, February 1, 1775, William Pitt, Lord Chatham vs. Jogn Montague, Lord Sandwich, on Franklin Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke to Count Patrick D’Arcy, October 5, 1775 Peter Oliver, Excerpt from Origins · Progress of the American Rebellion Richard Price, Richard Price to Franklin, May 1790 Anonymous, Excerpt from The Bee, February 27, 1793 John Adams, John Adams on Franklin, May 15, 1811 NINETEENTH-CENTURY OPINIONS Joseph Dennie, From The Port Folio, 1801 Franci, Lord Jeffrey, From the Edinburgh Review, 1806 Charles Brockden Brown, From Literary Magazine, 1806 John Foster, From The Eclectic Review, 1818 John Keats, To George and Georgiana Keats, October 14-31, 1818 Edgar Allan Poe, The Business Man Leigh Hunt, From Hunt’s Autobiography Herman Melville, From Israel Potter Anonymous, From The Nation, 1868 Mark Twain, The Late Benjamin Franklin Frederick Jackson Turner, From The Dial, 1887 William Dean Howells, From "Editor’s Study," April, 1888 - From "Editor’s Study," July, 1888 - From "Editor’s Study," January, 1890 - From "Editor’s Easy Chair," October, 1905 TWENTIETH-CENTURY OPINIONS Max Weber, Excerpt from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism D.H. Lawrence, Benjamin Franklin W. Somerset Maugham, [The Classic Books of America] Charles L. Sanford, An American Pilgrim’s Progress Robert Freeman Sayre, The Worldly Franklin and the Provincial Critics John William Ward, Who Was Benjamin Franklin? David Levin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: The Puritan Experimenter in Life and Art J.A. Leo Lemay, Franklin’s Autobiography and the American Dream Bibliography Key Editions of Franklin's Autobiography Abbreviations and Bibliography for the Annotations and the Biographical Notes A Selective, Annotated Bibliography of Twentieth-Century Criticism Authors Index |
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