LONGMANS' ENGLISH CLASSICS

EDITED BY

GEORGE RICE CARPENTER, A.B.

PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Longmans' English Classics

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

EDITED

WITH NOTES AND AN INTRODUCTION

BY

WILLIAM B. CAIRNS, PH.D.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE VNIVERSITY
OF WISCONSIN

HARVARD COLL GE LIBRARY

GIFT OF

EDWIN FRANCIS GAY
AUG 30 1932

COPYRIGHT, 1905

BY

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

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FIRST EDITION, NOVEMBER, 1905

REPRINTED, MAY, 1909