Invitation to dinner at the King's Head Tavern hosted by the Associates of the late Dr. Bray for Founding Libraries and Instructing the Negroes in the British Plantations.

Name:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Associates of Dr. Bray (Organization); Bray, Thomas, 1658-1730

Date:

1772-05-21

Description:

London. Invitation to dinner at the King's Head Tavern, Holborn, on May 21. Engraved N. 1p.

Language:

English

Provenance:

Bequeathed by Benjamin Franklin to his grandson William Temple Franklin. Bequeathed by William Temple Franklin to George Fox who in turn passed on possession to his children, Charles and Mary. Found at the Fox family estate at Champlost in a stable loft by Mrs. Holbrook around 1862 and given to her by Eliza Fox subsequently. Sold by her son George O. Holbrook to a committee of friends of the University of Pennsylvania Library in 1903 and gifted by them to the University the same year.

Subject:

African Americans -- Education -- History -- 18th century; Tickets -- England -- London -- Specimens -- History -- 18th century

Form/Genre:

Invitations

Geographic Subject:

United Kingdom – London

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

From the Benjamin Franklin papers held at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.; For a full finding aid see: https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records/UPENN_RBML_PUSP.MS.COLL.900

Physical Location:

Ms. Coll. 900, Volume I, Page 19b

Collection:

Benjamin Franklin Papers (University of Pennsylvania)