These were compiled and edited by Jared Sparks, "The Works of...

Franklin...

with Notes and a Life of the Author", 10 vols.
(1836-40); and later by John Bigelow, "The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin; including His Private as well as His Official and Scientific Correspondence, and Numerous Letters and Documents Now for the First Time Printed, with Many Others not included in Any Former Collection, also, the Unmutilated and Correct Version of His Autobiography", 10 vols.

(1887-88).

Consult also James Parton, "The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin", 2 vols.