Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from ——— Harrison, 23 December 1783

From ——— Harrison4

AL: American Philosophical Society

Hotel des armes de L’Empire rue D’auphin Paris.
23 Xbre. 83

Mr Harrison presents his respectful Compliments to His Excellency, is sensible of his polite Invitation at same Time is sorry that an Indisposition that has Kept him confined since his arrival in Paris, prevents his having the Honor to wait on His Excellency on Thursday next.5

His Excellency Benjamin Franklin Esqr.

Addressed: A Son Excellence / Monsieur Franklin / en Son hôtel / a Passy

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

4. The handwriting is unfamiliar to us. We suspect that this is the American merchant George Harrison, who was based in Nantes and met BF in August, 1783, when BF gave him a letter of introduction to Vergennes: XL, 490–1, 509.

5. Christmas day, when BF hosted a dinner party; see John Paul Jones to BF, Dec. 20.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from ——— Harrison, 23 December 1783
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    Franklin, Benjamin
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    23 December 1783

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from ——— Harrison, 23 December 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified April 12, 2018, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-41-02-0220. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 41, September 16, 1783, through February 29, 1784, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014, pp. 318–319.]