Letter from Henry Brevoort to Moses Thomas (?)

Letter

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Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

Letter from Henry Brevoort to Moses Thomas (?)

Entry/Object ID

HHV 003.764

Description

Letter from Henry Brevoort to Moses Thomas (?)

Subject

The Sketch Book, printing and binding, costs, etc.

Subject Person/Organization

Henry Brevoort, Moses Thomas, Henry Cary

Subject Place

* Untyped Subject Place

New York

Collection

Irving Manuscript Collection

Letter Details

Letter Date

Jul 23, 1819

Transcription

Transcription

New York July 23. 1819 Dear Sir, I have rec’d your letter dated the / 16th. I have found some coloured paper here / that will do for the 2d number. __ The binding of the 1’t No cost three / Cents _ the 2d will only cost two Cents pr Copy _ I think your Binder will agree to the three / Cents. __ You ?? may send your / [^ note] to me, lefs the deductions stated in / your letter. The second number (500) / Copies shall be forwarded to you by / the Mercantile Line _ and as many / of them as can be got in readinefs / shall be dispatched a day or two / previously to the publication in N York. I cannot yet state positively / whether it can be in readinefs by / the 1 August. _ The price of the [END OF PAGE 1] 2d No. will be Fifty Cents with the discount / of thirty three + a third Cents _ The / credit Ninety days . __ I have / determined to ask endorsed notes / for the 2d + future numbers _ as / this request will be made of all / purchasers, I presume you will / not hesitate to comply with it. When I have the pleasure of seeing / you in New York, we will talk over / the business of the Sketch Book, + / I have no doubt to your entire / satisfaction . __ The Paper for the future numbers / should be of the same Kind precisely as / that you sent _ I am very desirous / that you take the earliest means / of procuring from the manufacturer [END OF PAGE 2] the quantity of Reams I mentioned / and if he refuse to sell it for / seven dollars _ we must indulge / him with Seven + a half dollars. __ Half the qty ought to be in / New York by the beginning of August / I therefore must urge you to obtain / it (if pofsible) in time to send it / to N York by Sea within that period. If you have not been able to / see the manufacturer _ do endeavor / to convey a Letter to him with the / request now urged. __ You will hear of me when you / get to New York by enquiring of Mefs’r / Henry Cary +c: 38 Mill Street. I am Dear Sir Sincely ys H Brevoort Jr.

Transcriber

Kathryn Alexander

Language

English

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Former Number

Other Number

W 495