It is from these and other considerations scarcely less interesting, that the publishers feel great confidence and pleasure in presenting this work to the public favour. Great care has been taken in selecting the matter of which these volumes are composed; and, it is believed, that they will be found to comprise nearly all that is most entertaining and useful to the general reader, in the writings of Franklin.
H. & B.
New-York, Sept., 1839.
CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.
| PART I. | |
| Page | |
| Life of Dr. Franklin, written by himself | [13] |
| PART II. | |
| Letter from Mr. Abel James | [91] |
| Letter from Mr. Benjamin Vaughan | [92] |
| Continuation of Life, begun at Passy, near Paris, 1784 | [98] |
| Memorandum | [115] |
| PART III. | |
| Life of Franklin, continued by Dr. Stuber | [191] |
| Extracts from Franklin's Will | [227] |
| WRITINGS OF FRANKLIN. | |
| The Examination of Dr. Franklin before the British House of Commons, relative to the Repeal of the American Stamp-act | [237] |
| Narrative of the Massacre of Friendly Indians in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1764 | [264] |
| Introduction to Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania | [282] |
| Dr. Franklin's Motion for Prayers in the Convention at Philadelphia, 1787, to revise the then existing Articles of Confederation | [286] |