OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF,

AND CONTINUED BY HIS GRANDSON AND OTHERS.

WITH

HIS SOCIAL EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE, PHILOSOPHICAL, POLITICAL,

AND MORAL LETTERS AND ESSAYS,

AND HIS

DIPLOMATIC TRANSACTIONS AS AGENT AT LONDON AND MINISTER

PLENIPOTENTIARY AT VERSAILLES.

AUGMENTED BY MUCH MATTER NOT CONTAINED IN ANY FORMER EDITION.

WITH A

POSTLIMINIOUS PREFACE.

BY WILLIAM DUANE.

N TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

NEW YORK:
DERBY & JACKSON, 119 NASSAU STREET.

ENTERED according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1834, by McCarty & Davis, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

1. Ashinead & Co. I rit.rs.