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to Henry Knox
14 May 1774
Smith, Godfry, fl. 1774
Dr. Godfry requests the London Magazine and medical magazines.
GLC02437.00147
16 May 1774
Clarke, Joseph, fl. 1773-1774
Regrets that Knox has not responded to his letter concerning the binding of a pamphlet (see GLC02437.00144). Places magazine orders.
GLC02437.00148
21 May 1774
McLean, Alexander, fl. 1774
Orders books and magazines.
GLC02437.00149
Whittredge, William, fl. 1774
Confirms the receipt of a book order and places a new one.
GLC02437.00150
13 June 1774
Manning, John, 1741-?
Discusses previous correspondence and a draft brought against him by the New York bookseller and printer James Rivington (see GLC02437.00131 and GLC02437.00137). Manning was a surgeon and apothecary.
GLC02437.00151
24 May 1774
Bayley, Daniel, 1755-1799
Places an order for books and stationary. Bayley was a printer, publisher, and composer.
GLC02437.00152
14 June 1774
Parker, Robert, fl. 1774
Asks Knox to give his papers to the man who delivered this letter.
GLC02437.00153
15 June 1774
Oliver, Andrew, 1731-1799
Asks about a list of books he requested from Knox. Knox has indicated that some of the books are scarce but said nothing of the others. He wonders if Knox lost the list, since he made the request a year ago. Oliver wrote a similar letter on 7...
GLC02437.00154
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Rivington provides a list of books he has sent to Knox to sell. Mentions other books he was printing. Asks for a list of subscribers Knox has procured, possibly for Rivington's New-York Gazetteer or an edition of Cook's Voyage Rivington was...
GLC02437.00155
20 June 1774
Rivington, James, 1724-1802
Suggests collecting payment from Knox's subscribers to Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, since they have had it a year. Requests a list of subscribers to Cook's Voyage, which Rivington was printing. Asks Knox to forward to New York any news Boston...
GLC02437.00156
26 June 1774
Requests that Knox buy and send him soap. Also asks Knox to write him a letter describing the state of things in Boston; at the time, the British had just passed the Intolerable Acts, including the Boston Port Bill, which closed Boston Harbor on 1...
GLC02437.00157
Indicates that Dr. Morewood, who has been appointed by Dr. Norton to distribute Maredants Drops, seeks an agent for distribution in Boston. Rivington has recommended Knox. Also asks him to collect money from subscribers to his newspaper, Rivington...
GLC02437.00159
to Aaron Hobart
December 27, 1821
Davis, William, Jr., 1783-1824
Explains a particular situation in which "the collector [William Whitman] refuses to pay" some monies related to a rum shipment Davis made to Russia and asks Hobart to assist him in recovering the money.
GLC06313.04.124
4 July 1774
Knox, Hugh, 1727-1790
Asks Henry to help him acquire subscribers for his new publication, which will be printed in New York shortly, possibly referring to "Moral and religious miscellany; or, Sixty-one aphoretical essays, on some of the most important Christian doctrines...
GLC02437.00161
10 July 1774
Ruggles, John, 1742-?
Captain Ruggles orders magazines.
GLC02437.00162
13 July 1774
Fletcher, Thomas, fl. 1774
Tells Knox that he referred a friend, Hugh Knox, to him for the purpose of obtaining subscriptions for his upcoming publication of religious essays. Although Fletcher feels that the world has enough of such treatises, he thinks it may be of use to...
GLC02437.00163
14 July 1774
Wright, & Gill, fl. 1753-1798
Indicates that they received Knox's payment. In regard to the Boston Port Bill, they write that they "are extremely sorry for the Situation of our Friends at Boston, and heartily wish that every Difference was so far settled, as that a mutual good...
GLC02437.00164
30 July 1774
Newell, Andre, fl. 1774
Orders a dressing table (toilet) from Knox.
GLC02437.00165
19 July 1774
Dudley, Charles, fl. 1774
Inquires about a book order.
GLC02437.00166
25 July 1774
Discusses various issues related to their business dealings. Comments on collecting fees from subscribers to Rivington's New-York Gazetteer. Mentions that he will discuss Knox's terms for business with Dr. Morewood (see GLC024137.00158). Orders...
GLC02437.00169
27 July 1774
Paine, William, fl. 1774
Places an orders for paper.
GLC02437.00170
28 July 1774
Informs Knox that the regiment of Royal Welch Fusiliers has embarked from New York to Boston, and that he has recommended them to Knox's shop. Having heard that Hyson tea was scarce in Boston, Rivington indicates that he has sent four chests of it...
GLC02437.00171
29 July 1774
Requests another copy of a book that he ordered previously but believes to have been lost.
GLC02437.00172
5 August 1774
Wheeler, William Willard, 1774-1788
Reverend Wheeler orders religious books, and expects to buy more soon to supply a local school.
GLC02437.00174
6 August 1774
Brown, Christopher, fl. 1772-1774
Reports shipment of publications to Knox from Thomas Longman, with Brown writing on Longman's behalf. Longman was a London bookseller.
GLC02437.00175
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