Writings of Benjamin Franklin

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Autobiography
Poor Richard's Almanac
Speeches at the Constitutional Convention
Writings on Economic Topics
Writings on Science & Invention
Philosophical & Religious Writings
Political Writings
Writings on Education
Will
Miscellaneous Letters
Other Writings
Collected Writings

Autobiography (1793)

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin from Amazon.com
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (ushistory.org)
Benjamin Franklin: His Autobiography (Hypertext on American History)
Autobiography of Ben Franklin (Bartleby.com)
Autobiography, Letters, and Other Writings (Bibliomania)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Project Gutenberg)
How I Became a Printer in Philadelphia -- from the Autobiography

Poor Richard's Almanac

Poor Richard's Almanac on Amazon.com
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1733
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1734
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1735
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1737
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1738
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1739
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1740
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1741
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1742
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1743
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1744
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1745
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1746
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1747
Poor Richard's Improved Almanack, 1748
Poor Richard's Improved Almanack, 1752
Poor Richard's Improved Almanack, 1753
Poor Richard's Improved Almanack, 1759

Speeches at the Constitutional Convention

Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy, 1787 (Bartleby)
Constitutional Convention Address on Prayer (American Rhetoric) [For context, see: The Franklin Prayer Myth]
Speech to the Federal Convention, 17 September 1787 (Online Library of Liberty)
Benjamin Franklin to the Federal Convention, 17 September 1787 (The Founder's Constitution)
On the Constitution (1787) (American Rhetoric)
Remarks at the Closing of the Federal Convention (Online Library of Liberty)

Writings on Economic Topics

A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper-Currency, 1729 (Hypertext on American History)
Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc., 1751
Information to Those Who Would Remove to America, September 1782 (The Founder's Constitution)
Letter to Robert Morris , 25 December 1783 (The Founder's Constitution)

Writings on Science & Invention

Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 -- includes "Farther Experiments and Observations in Electricty"
Observations and Suppositions Towards Forming a New Hypothesis for Explaining the Several Phenomena of Thunder Gusts, 1749
Franklin's Correspondence About the Glass Armonica
Experiments with Balloons, 1783
Meteorological Imaginations and Conjectures, [May 1784]
1785: Observations on the Gulf Stream by Benjamin Franklin
Daylight Saving Time

Philosophical & Religious Writings

A Lecture: On the Providence of God in the Governance of the World (MOA: Southern Literary Messenger)
Letter to the London Packet, 3 June 1772 (The Founder's Constitution)
Letter to Richard Price, 9 Oct. 1780 (The Founder's Constitution)
Letter to Ezra Stiles, 9 March 1790, on Franklin's religious views

Political Writings

The Albany Plan of Union, 1754 (Hypertext on American History)
Reasons and Motives for the Albany Plan of Union, July 1754 (The Founder's Constitution)
from The Gazeteer and New Daily Advertiser, 2 May 1765 (The Founder's Constitution)
An Address to the Public from the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, 9 November 1789
Queries and Remarks respecting Alterations in the Constitution of Pennsylvania, 1789 (The Founder's Constitution)

Writings on Education

Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania, 1749 (University of Pennsylvania)
Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania, 1749 (University of Pennsylvania)
letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson of King's College, 1750 (University of Pennsylvania)
Observations relative to the intentions of the original founders of the Academy in Philadelphia, 1789 [published 1840] (University of Pennsylvania)

Will

Last Will and Testament, 28 April 1757 (Founders Online)

Miscellaneous Letters

Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress (1745)
Letter to John Waring, 17 Dec. 1763 (The Founder's Constitution)
Letter to Sarah Bache, 26 Jan. 1784 (The Founder's Constitution)

Other Writings

Items in the New England Courant, 1721-22 -- as Silence Dogood (ushistory.org)
Edward E. Hale, "Ben Franklin's Ballads," The New England Magazine, Vol. 24, Iss. 4, June 1898, pp. 505-508
Journal of Occurences in My Voyage to Philadelphia on Board the Berkshire . . . (Hypertext on American History)
Remarks concerning the Savages of North America, [before 7 January 1784]
An Account of the Supremest Court of Judicature in Pennsylvania, viz., The Court of the Press, 12 Sept. 1789 (The Founder's Constitution)
An Account of the Supremest Court of Judicature in Pennsylvania, viz., The Court of the Press, 12 Sept. 1789 (Online Library of Liberty)

Collected Writings

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin -- searchable (The American Philosophical Society & Yale University; The Packard Humanities Institute)
The Works of Benjamin Franklin
Founders Online
Documents (Constitutional Sources Project)