The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Volume III: London, 1757 - 1775

A Defense of the Quakers and the Pennsylvania Assembly - September, 1757

A Letter from Father Abraham, to His Beloved Son - August, 1758

A Defense of the Americans - May 12, 1759

Those Who Would Have Peace With France - November 24, 1759

Humourous Reasons for Restoring Canada - December 27, 1759

The Jesuit Campanella's Means of Disposing the Enemy to Peace - August 13, 1761

A Narrative of the Late Massacres of a Number of Indians - 1764

The Duke of York's Travels - May 15, 1765

The Grand Leap of the Whale - May 22, 1765

Invectives Against the Americans - December 28, 1765

The Mother Country - c. 1765

On the Prospects of War in America - January 2, 1766

The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser - January, 1766

"Homespun" Celebrates Indian Corn - On the Paving of Chancery Lane - On the Tenure of the Manor of East Greenwich - "Two Taylors" - "Homespun's" Further Defense of Indian Corn

Pax Quaeritur Bello - January 26, 1766

On Chastising the Colonies - February 13, 1766

The Frenchman and the Poker - February-March, 1766

A Mock Petition to the House of Commons - April 12-15, 1766

Contempt for the Thames - August 22, 1766

On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor - November 29, 1766

The Misrepresentation of America - April 9, 1767

Reply to Coffee-House Orators - April 9, 1767

Right, Wrong, and Reasonable - April 18, 1767

Of Lightning - 1767

American Longevity - December 15, 1767

Railing and Reviling - January 8, 1768

Causes of the American Discontents Before 1768 - January, 1768

Subjects of Subjects - January, 1768

On the Candidacy of Barlow Trecothick - December 12, 1768

On the Labouring Poor - April, 1768

Phonetic Alphabet - 1768?

Queries - August 18, 1768

On Civil War - August 25, 1768

On Sinecures - September 28, 1768

A New Version of the Lord's Prayer - 1768?

Defense of American Placeholders - January 17, 1769

Positions To Be Examined - April 4, 1769

New Fables - January 2, 1770

A Conversation on Slavery - January 30, 1770

The Cravenstreet Gazette, No. 113 - September 22, 1770

The Rise and Present State of Our Misunderstanding - November 8, 1770

Account of an Audience with Hillsborough - January 16, 1771

The Seeds Sown of a Total Disunion of the Two Countries - May 15, 1771

Introduction to a Plan for Benefiting the New Zealanders - August 29, 1771

Toleration in Old and New England - June 3, 1772

The Sommersett Case and the Slave Trade - June 20, 1772

Preface to the Declaration of the Boston Town Meeting - February, 1773

A Little Time Must Infallibly Bring Us All We Demand or Desire - July 7, 1773

Articles from The Public Advertiser - 1773

On the Hutchinson Letters - An Infallible Method To Restore Peace and Harmony - Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One - 'Tis Never Too Late To Mend - An Edict by the King of Prussia - A Chimney-Sweeper's Logic

Public Statement on the Hutchinson Letters - December 25, 1773

On a Proposed Act To Prevent Emigration - December? 1773

On Franklin's Ingratitude - before January 31, 1774

A War It Will Be - after March 9, 1774

An Open Letter to Lord North - April 5, 1774

A Method of Humbling Rebellious American Vassals - May 21, 1774

An Act for the More Effectual Keeping of the Colonies Dependent - June 29, 1774

An Imaginary Speech - February 7, 1775

A Dialogue Between Britain, France, Spain, Holland, Saxony, and America - February? 1775

A Proposed Memorial to Lord Dartmouth - March 16, 1775

Proposed Articles of Confederation - July 21, 1775

Resolutions on Trade Submitted to Congress - July 21, 1775

Account of the Devices on the Continental Bills of Credit - September 20, 1775

The King's Own Regulars - November 27, 1775

Bradshaw's Epitaph - December 14, 1775

The Rattle-Snake as a Symbol of America - December 27, 1775

What Would Satisfy the Americans? - 1775

Letters of 1757 and 1758

Reasons Against Satirizing Religion; Electric Shocks in Paralytic Cases; Strata of the Earth; Cooling by Evaporation; Faith, Hope, and Charity; Happiness in this Life

Letters of 1760

Conversation Warms the Mind; The More They Are Respected; The Art of Virtue; Salt Deposits; The Knowledge of Nature; Tides in Rivers; The Best English; Color and Heat; Prejudice . . . Against Your Work

Letters of 1761 and 1762

Faults in Songs; A Case in Point; The Glass Armonica; Sound; Oil and Water; I Look'd Round for God's Judgments

Letters of 1763 and 1764

The Arts Delight to Travel Westward; The Natural Capacities of the Black Race; Like a Morning Fog before the Rising Sun; An Ambassador to the Country Mob; So Selfish is the Human Mind; Go Constantly to Church Whoever Preaches

Letters of 1765 and 1766

The Old Songs Versus Modern Music; We Might As Well Have Hinder'd the Suns Setting; A Pretty Good Sort of a World; I Never Was Prouder of Any Dress in My Life; A Brazen Wall Round England for its Eternal Security; Dirt . . . Will Not Long Adhere to Polish'd Marble

Letters of 1767

Travelling is One Way of Lengthening Life; Condemn'd to Live Together and Tease One Another; A Collection for You of All the Past Parings of My Nails

Letters of 1768

I Am Too Much of an American; Fossils; Canal Depths and Ship Movement; Cold Air Baths; The Usefulness of an Odd Half of a Pair of Scissars; God Governs, And He is Good; At Present I Almost Despair; Learning to Swim

Letters of 1769

A Receipt for Making Parmesan Cheese; Affairs are Perhaps Below Notice; Whoever Scruples Cheating the King Will Certainly Not Wrong His Neighbour; The True Sources of Wealth and Plenty; I Hope However That This May All Prove False Prophecy

Letters of 1770

If We Are Steady and Persevere in Our Resolutions; I Should Think You a Fortune Sufficient for Me Without a Shilling; The Sole Legislator of His American Subjects; Hitherto Made No Attempt Upon My Virtue; Have You Then Got Ne'er A Grandmother?; This World is the True Hell

Letters of 1771

How Raindrops Grow; An Adventure to Gain Forbidden Knowledge; What Sort of Husbands Would Be Fittest

Letters of 1772

Compar'd to these People Every Indian Is a Gentleman; On the Writings of Zoroaster; Suppress'd by the Legislature; Rivers Are Ungovernable Things; Moral or Prudential Algebra; Alas! Poor Mungo!

Letters of 1773

The Increase of Religious as Well as Civil Liberty; Stoop! Stoop!; Causes of Colds; I'll Be Hanged if This Is Not Some of Your American Jokes upon Us; Transfer Prints on Tiles; Oil on Water

Letters of 1774 and 1775

Nothing Can Be Farther from the Truth; My Supposed Application to Mr. Grenville; Flame on New Jersey Rivers; You Are Now My Enemy; This is a Harder Nut to Crack than They Imagined; There Is No Little Enemy