Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Henry Laurens, 7 December 1782

From Henry Laurens

L:7 American Philosophical Society

Hotel d’York Saturday 7th. Decemr: 1782.

Mr: Laurens presents his Compliments to Mr. Franklin, and requests the honor of his Company to dinner on Wednesday next at 3 oClock.8

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

7. In the hand of Henry Laurens, Jr.

8. JA attended the dinner: Butterfield, John Adams Diary, III, 95.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Henry Laurens, 7 December 1782
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    Laurens, Henry
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    7 December 1782

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Henry Laurens, 7 December 1782,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-38-02-0313. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 38, August 16, 1782, through January 20, 1783, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 425.]

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