BIB_ID
80122
Accession number
MA 3069
Creator
Bellamy, John, 1755-1842.
Display Date
[1812].
Credit line
Purchased, 1971.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 23.5 x 19.6 cm
Notes
The letter is undated however the paper is watermarked 1812.
The letter appears to be a lithographic copy.
Address panel to "Dawson Turner, Esq. / Yarmouth."
With a newspaper advertisement, dated 1818, for Bellamy's new translation of the Bible from Hebrew.
The letter appears to be a lithographic copy.
Address panel to "Dawson Turner, Esq. / Yarmouth."
With a newspaper advertisement, dated 1818, for Bellamy's new translation of the Bible from Hebrew.
Provenance
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund, 1971.
Summary
Announcing his new translation of the Bible from the original Hebrew and inviting him to subscribe to a work that is "...intended to stop the alarming progress of deistical infidelity, which has already done so much injury to church & state;" also asking him to ".. have the goodness to use your extensive influence among your friends that I may speedily be enabled to send the labor of fifteen years to the press."
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