Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from [Israel] Wilkes, 26 April 1767

From [Israel] Wilkes5

AL: American Philosophical Society

Red Lyon Square 26th. April [17676]

Mr. Wilkes presents his Compliments to Dr. Franklyn, and begs the favour of his Company to drink Tea, and spend the Evening, on Fryday 1st. May.

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

5. Apparently not John Wilkes, who was out of the country during most of 1767, but his brother Israel (d. 1805), a London merchant, F.R.S., 1760, with whom BF was invited to eat Christmas dinner in 1766; see above, XIII, 538.

6. So dated because May 1, the date for which Wilkes invited BF for tea, fell on a Friday during his second mission only in 1767 and 1772; according to editorial practice, this note is placed at the earlier of the two dates.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from [Israel] Wilkes, 26 April 1767
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    Wilkes, Israel
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    Franklin, Benjamin
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    26 April 1767

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from [Israel] Wilkes, 26 April 1767,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-14-02-0072. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 14, January 1 through December 31, 1767, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1970, pp. 141–142.]