BIB_ID
107358
Accession number
MA 22760
Creator
Doddridge, Philip, 1702-1751.
Display Date
Northampton, England, 1747 May 5.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 19.2 x 16 cm
Notes
Address panel with fragment of a seal and postmarks: "To Mr Wilson / at Mr Balfours Bookseller / in Edinburgh / North Britain." Doddridge's correspondent is likely to have been the Scottish bookseller and publisher David Wilson, who published The Expository Works and Other Remains of Archbishop Leighton, edited by Doddridge, in 1748.
The second leaf of the letter contains another letter in a different hand, dated May 5, 1747 and written by James Robertson. It appears to be addressed to Wilson. In it, Robertson discusses the work Doddridge is doing on Leighton's commentary and reiterates points in Doddridge's letter. This letter has been crossed out with a "x."
The second leaf of the letter contains another letter in a different hand, dated May 5, 1747 and written by James Robertson. It appears to be addressed to Wilson. In it, Robertson discusses the work Doddridge is doing on Leighton's commentary and reiterates points in Doddridge's letter. This letter has been crossed out with a "x."
Summary
Making numerous corrections to proposals concerning a work by Archbishop Leighton, possibly The Expository Works; asking Wilson to recall the proposals already sent out and reissue them once corrected: "You will not fail I hope to get new proposals delivered according to the corrected copy before ye general assembly breaks up;" discussing Leighton's commentary on Peter in particular and saying that he has found a high number of errors in the text, "many of w[hi]ch destroy or greatly confound ye sense;" discussing how he might get the corrected text to Wilson: "I think it ye most incorrect Book I ever saw but find in the excellent contents an equivalent for ye Time I spend upon it;" asking Wilson to tell him when he intends to begin printing and how quickly the process will move, so that he can make preparations; sending greetings to mutual friends; advising Wilson to add the names of booksellers in London and the university towns, and to send proposals to New England; telling Balfour that, if he thinks it appropriate to publish a sermon by Colonel James Gardiner, he has Doddridge's consent to do so, "provided none be sent into England."
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