Georgiana Shipley, one of the daughters of Jonathan Shipley, the Anglican bishop of St. Asaph, was the kind of educated young woman whose company Franklin found so congenial. Miss Shipley was intelligent, an artist, an outspoken member of the liberal Whig circle in which both her father and Franklin moved.

Her correspondence with Franklin is preserved in his papers housed at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. See Sellers, pp. 267-269, Pl. 25.