Name/Title
Letter from Henry Brevoort to Wells & LillyEntry/Object ID
HHV 003.763Description
Letter from Henry Brevoort to Wells & LillySubject
Shipment of No. 3 to Boston, discount, price marked incorrectly, reorders of No. 1 and 2, terms of ordersSubject Person/Organization
Henry Brevoort, Wells & LillySubject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
Boston, MA, Providence, RI, New YorkCollection
Irving Manuscript CollectionTranscription
Transcription
New York 7 Sept 1819
Gentlemen
By the sloop Capt Comstock / bound for Providence, to sail at 11 o’clock this / day, I have directed to be sent you / 150 Copies of Sketch Book No 3 - The / residue 100 Copies, shall be forwarded / by the next packet. _ The price of / this No. is 75 Cents, less 33 ⅓ per Cent / discount _ The printed price is by / mistake put at 62 ½ Cents; in the remainder / of the edition this error will be corrected. / The Work will not be published in this / City until Monday next. __
At the time your order was rec’d for / 50 Copies of NOs 1 + 2, the whole of the / Edition of No.s had been sold _ a second / edition is now in the prefs + will be / shortly ready for dilivery in a short time.
You may if you think proper / return
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The 50 Copies of No. 2, or retain them on the / same terms as were agreed upon for the preceding / copies _ 50 Copes of No 1 shall be sent to / you the moment it is printed, if you / think fit to order them. _
I wish you to state to me in / what manner you prefer to make the / pay’t for No. 1 2 + 4, whether by my / [dft?] upon you, or by a remittance of / a [dft?] [in?] New York. __
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[LABEL]
Copy to
Wells + Lilly
Sep: 7 . 1819Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
EnglishOther Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
Number Type
Former NumberOther Number
W 494
