Benjamin Franklin 1733 · Philadelphia
Work
08:00–12:00 · planned
“Work.”
Verbatim excerpt · Benjamin Franklin
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Part Two, written 1784 · 1909 edition
Part Two · daily schedule table
Passage: Daily schedule table · hour labels 8, 9, 10, 11
Timing & context
The original table says only “Work.” It does not name a particular task.
Weekday in the source
Friday evenings and Sunday study
“we met on Friday evenings.”
Part One, paragraph introducing the Junto, the club of mutual improvement View passage ↗
“Sunday being my studying day”
Part Two, paragraph beginning ‘I had been religiously educated as a Presbyterian…’ View passage ↗
Franklin names these weekly habits in his autobiography. His 24-hour timetable is a separate ideal daily plan, not an account of a particular Friday or Sunday; the calendar does not combine the club meeting with that plan.
His ideal timetable, not a record of a particular day. Franklin said business interruptions made exact adherence difficult.
1733 is a representative display year selected by Typical Tuesday. The approximate 1730s period is inferred from the autobiography’s Philadelphia library and virtue-project sequence, recalled in 1784. This is an ideal plan.