The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Transcriber's Notes

Introduction:

This version of the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin was part of The Harvard Classics edition published by G. P. Putnam & Sons in 1909. The physical book also included the Journal of John Woolman and Fruits of Solitude by William Penn. This document only contains the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. A scanned version of the physical book owned by the Library of Congress is available through Hathitrust.

Production Notes Section:

This book contained no chapters and no table of contents.

The navigation tools on page 2 of this book were added by the transcriber, in the hope of providing a better reading experience. The four parts of this book correspond to the four parts of the Autobiography described in Wikipedia. Luckily, those four parts were the same breaks that Mr. Eliot added in The Harvard Classics Edition.

The quotations of On Franklin's Autobiography were added by the transcriber.

Detailed Notes Section:

• Page 43:
Six-pence was hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing. In several other places, the word was written without the hyphen. There was the retention of a hyphen in "three half-pence" on page 47. We did not retain the hyphen in transcribing the clause "at three shillings and sixpence a week."
• Page 51:
Changed schoool to school in "and open a swimming-schoool."
• Page 56:
Brick-makers was hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing. The word was not used again, but several different words using the same prefix or suffix were found: bricklayers, verse-makers, papermakers, and instrument-makers. No pattern could be detected. The hyphen was retained for no other reason than that was how it was originally transcribed, in the clause "by wheeling clay for the brick-makers."
• Page 92:
Changed propesed to proposed in "when I propesed new institutions."
• Page 125:
Changed on to an in the clause "and on accidental stroke on one of them would demolish it."

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