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Works of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 2
Letters & Writings 1735 - 1753
Introduction
It is easy to be persuaded that Mr. John Bigelow's edition of The Works of Benjamin Franklin is likely to be the most complete, the most scholarly and accurate, the Federal edition. Mr. Bigelow was confessedly the foremost authority on Franklin.
Materials and Manuscripts
Beside the material now in print, carefully collated for the present purpose, so far as possible, with the original manuscripts, he has had free use of the supplementary Franklin MSS. purchased by the State Department in 1881, and not published before his work, and the autobiography has been printed for the first time in any collected edition of Franklin's Works, from the original manuscript, which was in Mr. Bigelow's possession.
Content and Revisions
Mr. Bigelow promises upwards of 350 letters and documents which have never appeared in any previous collection, beside a thorough revision of the text throughout, and a new, chronological, arrangement of matter. The notes and other editorial additions are limited strictly to the illustration of the text.
Volume Details
This is volume two out of twelve, covering the years 1735 through 1753.
