_Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Edited from his Manuscript, with Notes and an Introduction_, by John Bigelow. Philadelphia: 1868. (To quote Ford: "This is not only the first appearance of the autobiography from Franklin's own copy, but also the first publication in English of the four parts, and the first publication of the very important 'outline' autobiography. It is therefore the first edition of _the_ autobiography" [p. 199].) _The Life of Benjamin Franklin, written by himself. Now first edited from original manuscripts and from his printed correspondence and other writings_, by John Bigelow. 3 vols. Philadelphia: 1874. (Bigelow text of _Autobiography_ and extracts from Franklin's other works.) _The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin including his private as well as his official and scientific correspondence, and numerous letters and documents now for the first time printed with many others not included in any former collection, also the unmutilated and correct version of his autobiography._ Comp. and ed. by John Bigelow. 10 vols. New York: 1887-1889. (Corrects many of Sparks's errors and adds "some six hundred new pieces." For first time works are chronologically arranged.) *_The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, collected and edited with a Life and Introduction_, by Albert Henry Smyth. 10 vols. New York: 1905-1907. (The standard edition. It is unfortunate that the editor has omitted pieces which are either too Rabelaisian or too metaphysically radical, such as the _Dissertation_ of 1725, or are, in his mind, _probably_ not written by Franklin.) II. COLLECTIONS AND REPRINTS No attempt has been made to include the learned journal articles which reprint occasional letters not in Smyth. Letters which aid in understanding Franklin's mind have been referred to in the Introduction and Notes. Chinard, Gilbert. _Les amitiés américaines de Madame d'Houdetot, d'après sa correspondance inédite avec Benjamin Franklin et Thomas Jefferson._ Paris: 1924. Diller, Theodore. _Franklin's Contribution to Medicine._ Brooklyn: 1912. (Able collection of Franklin's letters bearing on medicine. Franklin is described "as one of the greatest benefactors, friends, and patrons of the medical profession as well as a most substantial contributor to the science and art of medicine.") [Franklin, Benjamin.] _A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain._ Reproduced from the first edition, with a bibliographical note by Lawrence C. Wroth. The Facsimile Text Society, New York: 1930. (Although A. H. Smyth omitted this work from his _Writings of Benjamin Franklin_, suggesting that "the work has no value," it is difficult to see how a study of the _modus operandi_ of Franklin's mind could be thoroughly made without it. Parton in his _Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin_, and I. W. Riley in his _American Philosophy: The Early Schools_ have reprinted it in appendices.)