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From Benjamin Franklin to James Searle, 28 January 1781

To James Searle

AL: S. Howard Goldman (New York, 1976)

Sunday Morning Jan. 28. 81

Mr Franklin presents his Compliments to Mr Searle, is sorry he could not have the Pleasure of his Company at Dinner to day; but hopes Mr Searle will make him Amends on Tuesday next when Mr. F. will have no other Company, that the Conversation Mr Searle proposes to honour him with may not be interrupted.—

Endorsed: Recd. at 5. OClock on Monday Evg.

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    From Benjamin Franklin to James Searle, 28 January 1781
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    “From Benjamin Franklin to James Searle, 28 January 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-34-02-0237. [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, p. 325.]

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