The autobiography
dc.contributor | Library, of America |
dc.contributor.author | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 |
dc.coverage.placeName | New York |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:55:30Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:55:30Z |
dc.date.created | 1791 |
dc.date.issued | 1993-06-08 |
dc.identifier | ota:1574 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1574 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1574 |
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dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
dc.rights.label | PUB |
dc.subject.lcsh | Biographies -- Great Britain -- 18th century |
dc.subject.lcsh | Autobiographies -- Great Britain -- 18th century |
dc.title | The autobiography |
dc.type | Text |
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identifier.ee | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 http://dx.doi.org/10.13051/ee:bio/frankbenja001626 |
identifier.ee | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 http://dx.doi.org/10.13051/ee:bio/frankbenja001626 |
identifier.lccn | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043402 |
identifier.lccn | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043402 |
otaterms.date.range | 1700-1799 |
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<Author>Franklin, Benjamin</Author>
<Title>The Autobiography</Title>
<Edition>[Selections. 1987] Writings. Library of America. J.A. Leo Lemay, ed. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1987</Edition>
<Date>1771-1788</Date>
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<p>Twyford, at the Bishop of St Asaph's 1771
<p>Dear Son,
<p>I have ever had a Pleasure in obtaining any little
Anecdotes of my Ancestors. You may remember the Enquiries
made among the Remains of my Relations when you were with me
in England; and the Journey I took for that purpose. Now
imagining it may be equally agreable to you to know the
Circumstances of <i>my</i> Life, many of which you are yet
unacquainted with; and expecting a Weeks uninterrupted
Leisure in my present Country Retirement, I sit down to
write them for you. To which I have besides some other
Inducements. Having emerg'd from the Poverty &
Obscurity in which I was b . . .