Author:Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin
(1706–1790)

Benjamin Franklin

Works

• Experiments and Observations on Electricity (1751)
• Works of the late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his life, written by himself (1793)
• The posthumous and other writings of Benjamin Franklin (1819) IA 1, IA 2
• The works of Benjamin Franklin (1836) (editor Jared Sparks) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3, IA 4, IA 5, IA 6, IA 7, IA 8, IA 9, IA 10

Letters

• Extract of a Letter concerning Electricity, from Mr. B. Franklin to Mons. Delibard (1755)
• Letter on a Manuscript against the Doctrine of a Particular Providence (1757)
• Brave Men at Fires (1 December 1773)
• Franklin to an Engraver in Paris (24 June 1778)
• Franklin to John Wright (4 November 1789)
• Franklin to David Hartley (4 December 1789)
• Franklin to Abbé Jean-Louis Giraud Soulavie: Account of a Conversation with Benjamin Franklin on 12 August 1782 (22 September 1782)
• Franklin to Benjamin Webb (22 April 1784)
• An Address to the Public, (1789)
• A Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks (1789)
• Petition from the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery (1790)

Speeches

• On State Representation (1787)
• Disapproving and accepting the Constitution (1787)

Published works

• A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of Paper Currency (1729)
• Apology for Printers (1731)
• An Almanack-writer: An Essay Upon the Talents Requisite in an Almanack-writer, 1737 IA
• Variant Accounts of a Battle (1734)
• Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania (1749)
• Experiments and Observations on Electricity (1751) IA
• Some account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, 1754 IA

Continuation of the account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, 1761 IA

• Observations on the late and present conduct of the French, with regard to their encroachments upon the British colonies in North America: together with remarks on the importance of these colonies to Great-Britain. With William Clarke, M.D., fl. 1755; (1755) IA
• The way to wealth; or, Poor Richard improved, 1758 Internet Archive identifier: waytowealthorpoo00fran Undated copy
• A true and impartial state of the province of Pennsylvania. 1759 IA
• An historical review of the constitution and government of Pennsylvania, 1759 IA
• The interest of Great Britain considered, with regard to her colonies. With Richard Jackson, d. 1787 (1760) IA
• The Parliamentary or constitutional history of England, 1761 IA
• A narrative of the late massacres, in Lancaster County, 1764 IA
• The Examination of Doctor Benjamin Franklin relative to the repeal of the American Stamp Act in MDCCLXVI, 1767 IA
• Political, miscellaneous, and philosophical pieces, 1779 IA
• Observations on Smoky Chimneys, Their Causes and Cure: With Considerations on Fuel and Stoves, 1793 IA
• The private life of the late Benjamin Franklin, 1793 IA
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1771-1790) - published posthumously
• Works of the late Doctor Benjamin Franklin, consisting of his life, written by himself… (1793) (transcription project)
• Poor Richard's Almanack (1914), a posthumous alphabetical reprint of all the aphorisms from all the Almanacks

Essays

• A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain
• Dialogue Between Franklin and the Gout
• The Ephemera: An Emblem of Human Life
• Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One (published 11 September 1773)
• The Whistle
• Information to those who would remove to America (1784)
• The Morals of Chess (1786)

Other

• A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America (1743)
• A Catalogue of Books (1744)
• A Parable Against Persecution (1755); Another edition (c. 1795-1804)
• Last Will and Testament of Benjamin Franklin
• The Somersett Case and the Slave Trade, (20 June 1772)

Works written as Silence Dogood

• Silence Dogood, No. 1, The New-England Courant, April 2, 1722
• Silence Dogood, No. 2, The New-England Courant, April 16, 1722
• Silence Dogood, No. 3, The New-England Courant, April 30, 1722
• Silence Dogood, No. 4, The New-England Courant, May 14, 1722
• Silence Dogood, No. 5, The New-England Courant, May 28, 1722
• Silence Dogood, No. 6, The New-England Courant, June 11, 1722
• Silence Dogood, No. 7, The New-England Courant, June 25, 1722
• Silence Dogood, No. 8, The New-England Courant, July 9, 1722
• Silence Dogood, No. 9, The New-England Courant, July 23, 1722
• Silence Dogood, No. 10, The New-England Courant, August 13, 1722
• Silence Dogood, No. 11, The New-England Courant, August 20, 1722
• Silence Dogood, No. 12, The New-England Courant, September 10, 1722
• Silence Dogood, No. 13, The New-England Courant, September 24, 1722
• Silence Dogood, No. 14, The New-England Courant, October 8, 1722

Works about Franklin

• The life of Dr. Benjamin Franklin. by Richard Price, 1723-1791; Henry Stueber, 1770?-1792 (1796) IA
• "Franklin, Benjamin," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Franklin, Benjamin," in A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, (ed.) by George Grove, London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd. (1900)
• "Franklin, Benjamin," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Benjamin Franklin" by Lindsay Swift (1910) (HathiTrust)
• "Franklin, Benjamin," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Franklin, Benjamin," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• Carl Schurz, Lecture on Benjamin Franklin, 1884.
• "Benjamin Franklin", a poem by Florence Earle Coates

As Silence Dogood

• Hugo Grimm on Silence Dogood, The New-England Courant, December 3, 1722

Works as publisher

• All Slave-keepers that keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates (by Benjamin Lay, 1737)