Benjamin Franklin’s Writings and Documents
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Letters and Documents written by Benjamin Franklin on this site:
Franklin’s Address to the Public Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
The Declaration of Independence with Franklin’s changes in his handwriting
Dialog Between Franklin and the Gout
Disapproving and accepting the Constitution
Franklin’s Letter to Benjamin Webb
Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Mons. Delibard Regarding Electricity
Letter from Franklin to an Engraver in Paris
Letter on a Manuscript against the Doctrine of a Particular Providence
Letter from Franklin to Franklin to Abbé Geologist Jean-Louis Giraud Soulavie
Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of Paper Currency
On State Representation
Franklin’s Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks
Plan or Frame of Government for the Commonwealth or State of Pennsylvania (Franklin chaired the convention which passed this_
Franklin’s Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks
Petition to the Congress Petition from the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery
Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One
The Ephemera: An Emblem of Human Life
Benjamin Franklin’s Last Will and Testament
Letters and Documents elsewhere online:
Read the Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin as provided by his grandson William Temple Franklin in 1817
Read: Poor Richard’s Almanack 1739
Read: Plain truth (1747)
Read the Silence Dogood essays
Read the Silence Dogood essays
Experiments and Observations on Electricity – 1751 – In The Warnock Library, London
Read Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography
