BIB_ID
129323
Accession number
MA 9326
Creator
Chalmers, George, 1742-1825.
Display Date
1819 February 10.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.2 x 18.3 cm
Notes
Chalmers gives the place of writing as "Office for Trade, Whitehall." He was employed as chief clerk to the Board of Trade from 1786 until his death.
Perry was the owner and editor of the Morning Chronicle.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791); PML 9812-9815; volume I, page 89.
Perry was the owner and editor of the Morning Chronicle.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791); PML 9812-9815; volume I, page 89.
Summary
Enclosing an advertisement (no longer with the letter) for his life of Mary, Queen of Scots, "which I wish, to be six times inserted, in the Morning Chronicle, twice a week, every Tuesday, and Friday"; appealing to Perry as a "true born Scotsman" to comply with his request "in Such a manner, as to be most Efficacious to the End"; asking him to send the bill once he has run the advertisement.
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