Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Mr. Walker, 20 March 1767

From Mr. Walker1

AL: American Philosophical Society

St. James’s Street March the 20th 1767

Mr. Walker presents his Compliments to Dr. Franklyn and will be glad of the favour of his Company to dinner on Monday the 6th of April.

1. This may possibly be George Walker (1734–1807), a dissenting minister and mathematician and a friend of Joseph Priestly. BF supported his nomination to the Royal Society in 1771; above, VIII, 359; DNB.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Mr. Walker, 20 March 1767
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    Walker, George (1734–1807)
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    20 March 1767

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Mr. Walker, 20 March 1767,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-14-02-0046. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 14, January 1 through December 31, 1767, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1970, p. 93.]