Name/Title
(unsent) Letter from Henry Brevoort to Moses Thomas (?)Entry/Object ID
HHV 003.765Description
(unsent) Letter from Henry Brevoort to Moses Thomas (?)Subject
Paper orders, the Sketch Book, Washington Irving desire for Thomas to be the publisher of the Sketch Book volumes, “determination” for independence, Washington Irving has no other resource than his penSubject Person/Organization
Henry Brevoort, Moses Thomas, Washington Irving (1783-1859), Ebenezer Irving (1776-1868)Subject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
New YorkCollection
Irving Manuscript CollectionTranscription
Transcription
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New York June 14 . 1819
Dr Sir
I have rec’d your Letters of the / 10th + 11th Ins – The paper by Mr. Irving / is received; the remainder, I trust / will arrive here by Thursday at the / latest : – The Work will be ready / for publication, in thise case by / Saturday or Monday next. _
I shall not fail to [ensure] / your direction in regard to its /publication in NY + Philadelphia / at the same time . _ Your 500 Copies / will be forw’d by the Mercantile line. /
Mr. Irving had sent exprefs / instructions respecting the lot covers _ / had it been otherwise I should willingly / have forwarded your Copies in sheets.
The
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Edition consists of 2000 ?? Copies _ I have / the greatest reliance upon a ready sale / of the Work _ at all events you will be / fully enabled to judge of its popularity / by the sale of the first number. __
Should it be such as to encourage / you to offer a liberal price for the / MS of the succeeding numbers, I presume / Mr. E Irving would cheerfully write with / me in accepting your propositions . _
I know it is Washington’s Irivng’s / earnest wish, that you should be the / publisher of his writings, and certainly / I can have no motive whatever in / opposing his [friendly] dispositions towards you.
In the present case, you know that / we have asked only in obedience to his / directions, and that our sole object is / (if pofsible) to secure to him the immediate / advantages resulting from the publications
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Of his works. _ You are fully aware of his / [present] situation + intentions _ that it is / determination to maintain his independence / by the labor of his pen, and that he / pofsefses no other resource whatever . _
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Mr Thomas
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Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
EnglishOther Names and Numbers
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Former NumberOther Number
W 496
