To Benjamin Franklin from [Jonathan Shipley, 1771–75]: résumé
From [Jonathan Shipley]
AL: American Philosophical Society
[1771–758]
<Jermyn Street, Wednesday morning, in the third person. Invites Franklin to dinner next Monday. >
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
8. BF’s friendship with the Shipleys appears to have begun in 1771, and we are therefore printing the invitation under the earliest likely date.