Rivington, James (1724-1802) to Henry Knox
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00182 Author/Creator: Rivington, James (1724-1802) Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 2 October 1774 Pagination: 1p.+addr.+docket. 32.7 cm. x 20.6 cm. Order a Copy
Asks Knox to send a copy of John Hancock's Massacre Day Oration from March 1774 under a blank paper cover, because Rivington has an immediate use for the speech commemorating the Boston Massacre. Also regquests a single copy of any well-written pamphlet or book from Boston on the subject of the American dispute with the British. Rivington will print it in New York "whilst it shall be quite new to our readers in this province." Rivington was a bookseller, printer, and journalist who came to America in 1760. He published Rivington's New-York Gazetteer.
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"By the return of the post give me leave to desire you will send, in a blank paper cover, one of Colonel Hancock's Oration upon the Massacre; I have an immediate use for it; and beg you will not neglect doing this favor for me. If, my Dear Sir, you have already, or may at any future time have any pamphlet or Book at Boston, well written upon the unhappy Dispute with the English, pray fail not to send me one Copy by the first post, under a blank cover; that I may be able to print it whilst it shall be quite new to our readers in this province …"
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