Wythe to Robert Carter, 17 October 1792
From Wythepedia: The George Wythe Encyclopedia
George Wythe writes to Robert Carter from Richmond thanking him for his kindness in sending a gift of books. Wythe expresses the wish that he could respond in kind.[1] The books in question were English translations of the Swedish scientist and theologian, Emanuel Swedenborg:
- The True Christian Religion, vol. 1 (Philadelphia: Francis Bailey, 1789)
- Nine Queries Concerning the Trinity, Etc. (London: R. Hindmarsh, 1786, or 1790)
- A Short Account of the Honourable Emmanuel Swedenborg and His Theological Writings (London, printed—Baltimore: Samuel and John Adams, 1792)[2]
- The Liturgy of the New Church (Baltimore: Samuel and John Adams, 1792).
Letter text
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Dear Sir,
I return to you thanks for you friendly remembrance of me, and kind attention to my welfare, and wish i had power to remunerate your beneficence by sending books to you which would do
to
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to you no less good than those handed to me by Mr. Dawson ought in your opinion to do to me.
- G. Wythe
- Richmond, 17th of
- October, 1792
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Hon Robert Carter
- Nomony-hall.
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References
- ↑ George Wythe to Robert Carter, October 17, 1792, in Library & Archives, Maine Historical Society.
- ↑ Samuel and John Adams, two sons of James Adams of Wilmington, Delaware, operated a printing office in Baltimore from 1790 to 1796. Douglas Crawford McMurtrie, A History of Printing in the United States, vol. 2 (New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1936), 250.
