Dear Sir.
I wrote many months ago to messrs. James Buchanan and company
for an elegant sett of table and tea china, with bowls of the same of different sizes,
decanters and drinking glasses, an handsome service of glass for a dessert, four
middlesized and six lesser dishes, and three dozen plates of hard metal, 100 skins
of writing parchment proper for enrolling our acts of assembly on, several bundles of
best quills, two pieces of blanketing and as many of rolls for servants, 10 or 12
pair of shoes and two of slippers for myself, and one or two other articles which I do
not recollect. At that time there was due to me about thirty pounds, I believe,
for I have mislaid their last account current; and besides I had shipped four
hogsheads of tobacco to that house. The goods have not come to hand, neither
have I yet an accoount of sales of the tobacco. If they have not sent, nor de
sign to send the goods, I desire you will be so kind as let me have them, with
a bonnet for mrs Wythe, and present the inclosed order and receive the balance.
A few days since I desired you would procure for me an handsome well built
chariot, with the devicenon sent painted on it, for which you may depend on a
seasonable remittance. I again beg the favour of your attention to the affair of the journals. If
they are not to be procured, let me be informed what 120 printed copies of them
to the year 1752 will cost. If they do not exceed the sum I suppose, the assem-
bly, I doubt not, will defray the expense. The prospect of a benefit to me, I flat-
ter myself, will not only excuse the earnestness and frequency of my importuni-
ties, but stimulate your endeavours to serve me in this business. You will oblige
me by sending a copper plate, with the arms of Virginia neatly engraved, and
some impressions of them to be pasted on the books belonging to the house of bur-
gesses. If any additions are made on the plate in consequence of what is proposed
within, I will cheerfully pay the extraordinary cost. J H N left us a day or
two ago in good health & I forgot to mention that I had drawn bills on mess.
Ja Buchanan and company for about sixteen pounds payable to mr James
Coke. I am,
Dear Sir,
Your sincere friend and well wisher
G. Wythe
Aug. 18th 1768
Williamsburg
To
John Norton Esq;
Merchant in
London.
Virginia 18th Augst 1768
George Wythe Esqr.
Rec'd 24th October
Goods entd. pa: 76
p Capt. Robertson
Answd. the March 1769
p Briliant
Dear Sir;
If you will be so good as procure for me a well built
handsome post-charriott, I will remit the price of it in
due season. Something like the inclosed device may be
put upon it. Of the several articles I have lately wrote
for, the glasses, balls and other apparatus, such as are
used by the house of commons in balloting, and the du-
plicates of our journals, I am most anxious about, and
earnestly desire your particular attention to. The jour-
nals especially would be of considerable advantage to
me. I am
Dear Sir,
Your sincere friend and
well wishes
G Wythe
Williamsburg
Aug. 8. 1768.
To
John Norton Esq;
Merchant in
London.
Virga. 8th Augst. 1768
George Wythe
Rec'd ye 8th Octo.
Goods entd. pa:76
Ansd. the Octr 1768
p Capt. Esten
Dear Sir,
I shall be obliged to you if you will send me
eight or ten gallons of the best arrack in carboys pro-
perly secured, and some garden seeds. Your son left
us this morning. He is in very good health and spi-
rits. He was going to Hanover court. With my best
wishes for yours and your family's happiness,
I am
Your most obedient serv.
G. Wythe.
Williamsburg
June 1, 1768
To
Mr John Norton
Merchant in
London.
By Favour of
Mr Stevenson
Virginia 1st June 1768
George Wythe
Rec'd ye 25th July
p Mr Stevenson
Goods entd pa: 452
Ansd the August 1768
p Woodford