The Harvard Classics WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES EDITED BY CHARLES W ELLIOT LLD P F COLLIER & SON COMPANY NEW YORK 1909 Navigation...

with Notes of my Life (received in Paris). " My Dear and Honored Friend : I have often been desirous of writing to thee, but could not be reconciled to the thought that the letter might fall into the hands of the British, lest some printer or busy-body should publish some part of the contents, and give our friend pain, and myself censure. "Some time since there fell into my hands, to my great joy, about twenty-three sheets in thy own handwriting, containing an account of the parentage and life o

[Ending, as it does, with the year 1757, the autobiography leaves important facts unrecorded. It has seemed advisable, therefore, to detail the chief events in Franklin's life, from the beginning, in the following list:...

And yet the surprising and delightful thing about this book (the Autobiography ) is that, take it all in all, it has not the low tone of conceit, but is a staunch man's sober and unaffected assessment of himself and the circumstances of his career. Woodrow Wilson Such, for example, was Benjamin Franklin, whose charming autobiography, in addition to being an American classic, is a fine record of self-education. Charles A. Beard & Mary Ritter Beard For understanding the temper and ideals o

This version of the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin was part of The Harvard Classics edition published by G. P. Putnam & Sons in 1909. The physical book also included the Journal of John Woolman and Fruits of Solitude by William Penn. This document only contains the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. A scanned version of the physical book owned by the Library of Congress is available through Hathitrust. We have retained the original punctuation and spelling in the book, but there are

This book contained no chapters and no table of contents. The navigation tools on page 2 of this book were added by the transcriber, in the hope of providing a better reading experience. The four parts of this book correspond to the four parts of the Autobiography described in Wikipedia. Luckily, those four parts were the same breaks that Mr. Eliot added in The Harvard Classics Edition . The quotations of On Franklin's Autobiography were added by the transcriber. • Page 43 : Six-pence was hyphen