Note 11 — BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (continued 2)
Reading edition
End of reprint of the original MS in the Henry E. Huntington Library. The selections that follow are from Writings, in which A. H. Smyth reprints the Bigelow transcript with indifferent accuracy. "Continuation of the Account of my Life, begun at Passy, near Paris, 1784." Abel James and Benjamin Vaughan urge Franklin to continue his life beyond 1730 (see Writings, I, 313-20). Vaughan promises that when finished "it will be worth all Plutarch's Lives put together" (p. 318).