Name/Title
Letter from Moses Thomas to Henry BrevoortEntry/Object ID
HHV 003.756Description
Letter from Moses Thomas to Henry BrevoortSubject
Paper orders: colored, “royal size”, wastepaper, bindings, paper maker, Salmagundi, [Bipps?], [“Lameat?] (pamphlets?), [likely related to printing Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon?]Subject Person/Organization
Moses Thomas, Henry BrevoortSubject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
Philadelphia, PA, New YorkCollection
Irving Manuscript CollectionTranscription
Transcription
Philad’a 16. July 1819
Dear Sir
Your [favour?] of the 1[6t]h Inst. is received. / Shall I deduct the coloured paper, / + binding of the 200 copies in sheets / from my note? The latter cost me / four cents per Copy + there were four / quires of Waste Paper (as it’s called) / recefsary in binding them. They are / small matters but it’s proper they should / be deducted. The Colored Paper I / pay cash for, and put it to you at / cost. I cannot get any of a royal size such as you detailed. It might / be got made by taking 12 or 15 reams. / I couldn’t say as to procuring you /
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The 50 or 60 reams White paper at $7 / until I see the paper-maker. He lives / twenty miles from town, but generally calls / at my store when he comes in. I have paid / him the [750 cents] for the [?same?--ent?] for / Salmagundi.
[Bipps] was [sent into my / brother?] hope your letter was received. I / haven’t been able to find the [Lameat] tho’ it / is somewhere among my pamphlets.
I am sorry for this disappointment of the / hand made colored paper, but was, myself, / under the imprefsion it had gone.
With respect + esteem
[Yr ob svt]
M Thomas
[END OF PAGE 2]
P.S. will you have the goodness to leave / [one?] with my brother where I shall find / you if I go to N York within ten days.
The following to be deducted from the / 500 copies -
1 ream Colored paper___ 8..50
(100 sheets) 4 quires Waste paper__25 ct.. 1..00
Binding 200 opies @ 4 ct *__ 8.00
$17.50
If you afsent to those deductions you / may draw on me, or I will send the / note as may be most agreeable to / yourself MT
*This is the price the binder told my [boy] / I think it much too high - [but/put] it the same / they charge in NY, +c, if you please.
[END OF PAGE 3]
[LABEL]
Phil” 17 July 1819
M Thomas -
With
Copy of my Reply
[ADDRESS]
Henry Brevoort Jr. Esq.
New York
[POSTMARK - faded ink]
12[?]
[POSTAGE STAMP - faded ink, circle]
PHIL
19
JULTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
EnglishOther Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
Number Type
Former NumberOther Number
W 487
