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to Henry Knox
January 20, 1773
Goodwin, Samuel, fl. 1751-1773
Asks Knox to engage in a trade deal with "a Gentleman in Boston" who Goodwin has arranged to sell bibles for.
GLC02437.00025
January 21, 1773
Hays, Moses M., 1739-1805
Hays, interested in opening a store selling stationery and books in "New Port James," seeks to establish a business relationship with Knox. Asks Knox to occasionally supply him with books. Address mistakenly made out to Daniel Knox.
GLC02437.00026
January 22, 1773
West, Benjamin, 1738-1820
Agrees to pay Knox's 80 percent advance to purchase books, although he thinks it too high. In a post script, asks for books on philosophy and mathematics.
GLC02437.00027
February 1, 1773
Sparhawk, John, 1743-1787
Asks Knox to send him French grammar books and French bibles. Sparhawk later became the Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
GLC02437.00028
Sparhawk, Nathaniel, fl. 1773
Requests a subscription for the Lady's Magazine for 1773 for his mother, Eliza Sparhawk, who will pay Knox for it. A post script asks that any reply to this letter be directed to his mother or his brother, Samuel Sparhawk.
GLC02437.00029
February 4, 1773
Informs Knox that he received his last order of books and places a new one.
GLC02437.00030
February 16, 1773
Emerson, Bulkeley, 1732-1801
Sends payment and requests that Knox send him the books listed. Emerson was a bookseller.
GLC02437.00031
February 15, 1773
Haven, Jason, 1733-1803
Book order for "6 of Baxter's Call." Haven was the pastor of the First Church in Dedham.
GLC02437.00033
February 18, 1773
Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797
Indicates that he received Thomas Boylston's bill on Champion & Dickason for two hundred pounds sterling and an order for books. Expresses satisfaction with Knox's rebuttal of earlier accusations about underselling that Longman had heard from Knox's...
GLC02437.00034
8 March 1773
Hopkins, David, fl. 1773
Order for stationary supplies for Daniel Hopkins in Salem, Massachusetts. Placed by David Hopkins.
GLC02437.00038
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