This fragment is now bound, in a volume of Franklin’s correspondence with Shipley, as a postscript to the Bishop’s holograph copy of his letter below at the end of June, 1775. But the paper is larger than that of the copy; it has been folded, as the copy has not; and it is addressed and has the remnants of a seal. The conclusion is inescapable that it is unrelated to the copy, and is the last page of a letter actually sent. But not to Philadelphia: the address is inadequate, and the fact that the manuscript came down through Shipley’s descendants strongly suggests that it was returned to him. His affectionate conclusion links the New World and the Old, and asks Franklin to remember the family in Jermyn Street. All these signs indicate that the Bishop was writing a farewell, which was delivered to Mrs. Stevenson’s and returned because his friend had already left for Portsmouth.