THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

AND A SKETCH OF FRANKLIN'S LIFE FROM THE
POINT WHERE THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY ENDS
DRAWN CHIEFLY FROM HIS LETTERS

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
Boston: 4 Park Street; New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street
Chicago: 158 Adams Street

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

MARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF

GEORGE ARTHUR PLIMPTON
JANUARY 25, 1924

Copyright, 1886 and 1896,
BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

I. PARENTAGE AND BOYHOOD.

II. SEEKING HIS FORTUNE

III. ADVENTURES IN LONDON

IV. RETURN TO PHILADELPHIA

V. IN BUSINESS FOR HIMSELF

VI. SELF-EDUCATION

VII. GEORGE WHITEFIELD.

VIII. BEGINNING OF PUBLIC LIFE.

IX. A PUBLIC-SPIRITED GENTLEMAN

X. A PHILADELPHIA CITIZEN

XI. IN THE SERVICE OF THE KING.

XII. COMMON-SENSE IN WAR MATTERS.

XIII. FRANKLIN THE PHILOSOPHER

XIV. DEPARTURE FOR ENGLAND

XV. THE AFFAIR WITH THE PROPRIETARIES

SKETCH OF FRANKLIN'S LIFE FROM THE POINT AT WHICH HIS

AUTOBIOGRAPHY ENDS.

APPENDIX.

INDEX.

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V

7

31

55

70

85

115

131

. 137

149

. 159

172

. 187

199

. 206

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