Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Robert Charles, 17 July 1765

From Robert Charles1

AL: University of Pennsylvania Library

Wedn 17 July [1765]

Mr. Charles presents his Compliments to Doctor Franklin and desires the favour of his Company at the Letter feast on friday next at the Kings Arms tavern Cornhill.2

1. For Charles, formerly the Pa. agent in England, now comptroller of the Inland Office of the Post Office, see above, VI, 230 n; IX, 332 n; X, 242 n.

2. For this “feast,” see the document next but one below.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Robert Charles, 17 July 1765
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    Charles, Robert
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    Franklin, Benjamin
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    17 July 1765

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Robert Charles, 17 July 1765,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-12-02-0110. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 12, January 1, through December 31, 1765, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967, p. 216.]

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