The Yale volumes follow the chronology of Franklin's life.
Volumes 1 covers 1706-1734, Volume 2 covers 1735-44, and so
forth.
This website includes additional documents not
printed in the Yale volumes. We have inserted these into
the Table of Contents at the appropriate dates.
The complete Papers of Benjamin Franklin will occupy 46
volumes. Thirty-seven are now published, reaching August
of 1782.
For documents after this date, there is no page number in
a published Yale volume for citation. We have organized
these documents according to their expected eventual
volume number and assigned arbitrary sequence numbers, but
these numbers have no external validity. In citing
unpublished documents, you should use the full name and
date.
Please note that the Yale office has made some changes in
their plan for dividing future volumes by date. Our
website does not yet reflect these plans.
We have divided the Autobiography into 18 sections of suitable length for display in a browser window. These divisions have no significance outside this website.