The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

When it was announced that Benjamin Franklin was dead, letters of inquiry relating to his biogrnphy came to hand. It seems to have been generally agreed that I should be the author. All agree that he was a great reformer, a distinguished preacher, and a popular writer, whose memory should not be lost. Believing such a work was demanded and anxiously looked for by thousands of his friends and admirers, and in conformity to wishes repeatedly expressed during the last years of his life, and the wishes of his survivins: relations, the work was undertaken and is now submitted to the public.