Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from James Searle, [26 January 1781]

From James Searle

AL: American Philosophical Society

Hotel de Valois Friday Evening [January 26, 1781]4

Mr. Searles Compliments wait on Doctor Franklin. Mr. S, is much obliged by the Dors. Kind invitation to dine with him on sunday next. But as Sunday is a Day on which he knows the Dor. has a Number of his Friends with him5 & as Mr. S. wishes to have much Conversation with Dor. Franklin he must decline the honour of dineing at Passy on that day, but will be happy to wait on the Dor. any other day that may be Convenient to him.

Addressed: A Son Excellence / Monsr. Franklin / Ministre Plenipotentiare / des Etats-Unis / A Passy

Notation: Mr. Searle Hotel de Valois

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

4. In answer to BF’s of the previous day.

5. BF’s Sunday gatherings were a longstanding tradition: XXVIII, 422.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from James Searle, [26 January 1781]
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    Searle, James
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    26 January 1781

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from James Searle, [26 January 1781],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-34-02-0225. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 34, November 16, 1780, through April 30, 1781, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998, pp. 309–310.]

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