George Wythe letter to John Norton, 1768 August 18

George Wythe letter to John Norton, 1768 August 18

George Wythe letter to John Norton, merchant in London, England. Wythe writes concerning his order of goods from John Buchanan and Company for goods he has not received including china, bowls, decanters, drinking glasses, parchment, blanketing, rolls for servants, shoes, slippers etc., which he desires Norton to procure. He also writes concerning the carriage he ordered, copies of the journals of the House of Burgesses, a bonnet for Mrs. Wythe, and a copperplate with the arms of Virginia to make bookplates for the volumes belonging to the House of Burgesses. Wythe mentions that he has seen Norton's son, John Hatley Norton, who is well.

MS 1936.3.118
Folder 11

Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

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Dear Sir.

I wrote many months ago to mess^rs. 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

Address leaf

To
John Norton Esq;
Merchant in
London.

Virginia 18^th Aug^st 1768
George Wythe Esq^r.

Rec'd 24^th October
Goods ent^d. pa: 76
p Cap^t. Robertson

Answ^d. the March 1769
p Briliant