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Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chronology; Bibliographical note;Biographical guide; A note on the texts; 1. The autobiography - Part One,Part Two, Part Three, Part Four; 2. Plan of conduct (1726); 3. The nature andnecessity of a paper currency (1729); 4. Apology for printers (1731); 5.Rules for a club formerly established at Philadelphia (1732); 6. Dialoguebetween two Presbyterians (1735); 7. Letter to Josiah and Abiah Franklin(1738); 8. Proposal for promoting useful knowledge (1743); 9. Speech of MissPolly Baker (1747); 10. Plain truth (1747); 11. Form of the association andremarks (1747); 12. Advice to a young tradesman, written by an old one(1748); 13. Proposals relating to the education of youth in Pennsylvania; 14.Observations concerning the increase of mankind (1751); 15. Letter to JamesParker (1751); 16. Rattlesnakes for Felons (1751); 17. Letter to PeterCollinson (1753); 18. Letter to Peter Collinson (1753); 19. Join or die(1754); 20. Reasons and motives for the Albany Plan of Union (1754); 21.Letters to Governor Shirley (1754) with a preface of 1766; 22. Preface topoor Richard improved (1757); 23. Letter to (1757); 24. Letter to LordKames (1760); 25. On the price of corn, and the management of the poor(1766); 26. Letter to Lord Kames (1767); 27. Causes of the Americandiscontents before 1768 (1768); 28. The Somersett case and the slave trade(1772); 29. Rules by which a Great Empire may be reduced to a small one(1773); 30. An edict by the King of Prussia (1773); 31. On a proposed act toprevent immigration (1773); 32. Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union(1775); 33. Morals of Chess (1779); 34. The Whistle (1779); 35. Letter toJoseph Priestley (1780); 36. Letter to Joseph Priestley (1782); 37. Letter toRichard Price (1782); 38. Letter to Robert Morris (1783); 39. Remarksconcerning the savages of North America (1784); 40. Letter to Sarah FranklinBache (1784); 41. Information to those who would remove to America (1784);42. Letter to Benjamin Vaughan (1784); 43. At the Constitutional Convention(1787); 44. Queries and remarks (1789); 45. On the Slave Trade (1790); Index.