Edited with an Introduction by Kenneth A. Silverman
Edmund S. Morgan, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University
Introduction
vii
Chronology
xxi
Suggestions for Further Reading
xxiii
Note on the Texts
xxv
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
1
(176)
Franklin's Outline of the Autobiography
173
(4)
Essays and Letters
177
(58)
A Receipt to make a New-England Funeral Elegy
179
(5)
Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress
184
(2)
The Speech of Miss Polly Baker
186
(4)
How to secure Houses, &c. from Lightning
190
(1)
The Kite Experiment
191
(2)
The Way to Wealth
193
(10)
An Edict by the King of Prussia
203
(5)
From The Morals of Chess
208
(3)
The Elysian Fields
211
(3)
From Information to Those who Would Remove to America
214
(5)
An Address to the Public; From the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage
219
(3)
A Miscellany of Franklin's Opinions
222
(13)
Notes
235
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