Author:Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

See also biography, media, quotes. A founder of the United States.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Letters 1.2 Speeches 1.3 Published Works 1.4 Essays 1.5 Other

[edit] Works

[edit] Letters

• Brave Men at Fires (1 December 1773)
• Franklin to an Engraver in Paris (24 June 1778)
• Franklin to Benjamin Webb (22 April 1784)
• On The Age of Reason (1785)
• 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)

[edit] Speeches

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

[edit] Published Works

• A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of Paper Currency (1729)
• Apology for Printers (1731)
• Experiments and Observations on Electricity (1751)
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1771-1790) - published posthumously

[edit] Essays

• 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

[edit] Other

• A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America (1743)
• Last Will and Testament of Benjamin Franklin

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