Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from John and Sarah Jay, 3 February 1784

From John and Sarah Jay

AL:6 American Philosophical Society

Chaillot 3d. Febry.— [1784]7

Mr. & Mrs. Jay request the honor of Dr. Franklin’s Company at Dinner at 3 o’Clock on Saturday the 7th. Inst.—

Addressed: His Excellency Dr. Franklin / Passy—8

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

6. In the hand of Sarah Jay.

7. The only year during the Jays’ stay in France that Feb. 7 fell on a Saturday. John Jay had only just returned from England; he rejoined his family at the end of January: Jay Papers, III, 492.

8. On a blank section of the sheet BF wrote “[deleted: To] The honourable the Burgomasters and Senate of the Free Imperial City of Hamburgh”, interlining “The honourable” and correcting the spelling of Hamburgh. He was making the address conform to what appeared on the address line of Congress’ Nov. 1 letter to the city officials, which Boudinot had asked him to forward while enclosing a second copy for BF’s own files: Boudinot to BF, Nov. 1. For the address line BF was copying, see Smith, Letters, XXI, 133n.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from John and Sarah Jay, 3 February 1784
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    “To Benjamin Franklin from John and Sarah Jay, 3 February 1784,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-41-02-0341. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 41, September 16, 1783, through February 29, 1784, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014, p. 529.]