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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC02437.00138 |
| From Archive Folder | The Henry Knox Papers [0008] January-April 1774 |
| Title | James Rivington sends details of pamphlets to Henry Knox |
| Date | 20 April 1774 |
| Author | Rivington, James (1724-1802) |
| Recipient | Knox, Henry |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Business and financial document |
| Content Description | Sends Knox pamphlets which he believes Knox does not have and will be of interest to his customers. Mentions that he has printed a letter to John Hancock in Rivington's New-York Gazetteer and would provide the opportunity for any of Hancock's friends to reply to it. Sent a print for Paul Revere to make an engraving. Hancock was then a Boston selectman and member of the General Court. The letter was possibly a response to Hancock's general anti-British stance or his recent Massacre Day Oration, given in March 1774. Rivington was a bookseller, printer, and journalist who came to America in 1760. |
| Subjects | Book Selling Merchants and Trade Commerce Revolutionary War Art, Music, Theater, and Film Printing Boston Massacre |
| People | Rivington, James (1724-1802) Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Hancock, John (1737-1793) Revere, Paul (1735-1818) |
| Place written | New York, New York |
| Theme | Merchants & Commerce; Arts & Literature |
| Sub-collection | The Henry Knox Papers |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |
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