Rivington, James, 1724-1802 to Henry Knox
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00156 Author/Creator: Rivington, James, 1724-1802 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 20 June 1774 Pagination: 1p. address : docket : Height: 31.8 cm, Width: 19.7 cm Order a Copy
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 receives from England, and comments generally about news dissemination. Rivington was a bookseller, printer, and journalist who came to America in 1760. He published Rivington's New-York Gazetteer.
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