Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Sir John Pringle, [1768?]: résumé

From Sir John Pringle

AL: American Philosophical Society

[Wednesday evening (1768?): an invitation to dine next Friday at 3:30 to meet Dr. Hoare.4]

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

4. Perhaps Joseph Hoare, the newly appointed principal of Jesus College, Oxford. Hoare had served as proxy for the King at the marriage in Germany of the future Queen Charlotte in 1761, and might well have come to know Pringle as the Queen’s physician. If so the earliest possible date for this note is 1768, when Hoare received a D.D. from Oxford. Gent. Mag., LXXII (1802), 590; Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses … 1715–1886 (4 vols., London, 1887–88), II, 668.

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    Franklin Papers
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    To Benjamin Franklin from Sir John Pringle, [1768?]: résumé
    Author
    Pringle, Sir John
    Recipient
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    1 January 1768 – 31 December 1768

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Sir John Pringle, [1768?]: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-15-02-0168. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 15, January 1 through December 31, 1768, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1972, p. 295.]

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