I have long been seeking an oportunity of doing what I have long desired to do. The Sending you on the poor Widow Barry’s Account. Mr Almon’s Acct of the Publication & Sale of my Topographical Description of America with the enlarged & corrected Map annexed— The Following is Copy of the Account deliverd to me by him. The Ballance of which is made up by the Copies of that Work delivered in at the same time.
Copy. State of the Account of Gov Pownall’s Description of America.
| 1776 April 6. Printing 17 Sheets at £2 pr Sheet | |||||
| Number 1,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 34 : | 0 | : 0 | ||
| Paper for Do 34 Rhms. at 16/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 27 : | 4 | : 0 | ||
| 12 Sheets of the Impression burnt in the fire at the Savoy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 43 : | 4 | |||
| Old Plate repeatedly altering & engraving the new Plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 53 : | 10 | : 0 | ||
| Paper for the Plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 7 : | 4 | : 0 | ||
| Printing the Plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 10 : | 0 | : 0 | ||
| Colouring & joining the Maps at 9d . . . . . . . . . . . . | 37 : | 10 | : 0 | ||
| Sewing 900 in blue paper at 6d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 22 : | 10 | : 0 | ||
| 5 Rhms of hand-bills for sewing in different Magazines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 15 : | 10 | : 0 | ||
| Advertisements in the Country Papers viz Norwich Hereford Leicester &c &c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 22 : | 10 | : 0 | ||
| Advertisements in the London Papers . . . . . . . . . . | 27 : | 9 | : 0 | ||
| 300 : | 11 | : 0 | |||
| June 81 * | 96 | Copies Delivd to Gov’ Pownall | |||
| April 82— | 112 | not sewed | |||
| 12 | to Mr S Wharton. | ||||
| 14 | in hand | ||||
| 776 | sold at 8/6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 312 : | 16 | : 0 | |
*n.b. from these 96 I took out for presents 8 & three more which I have in my own hands. TP
I have gott packed up this day 75 Copies Sewed & 112 unsewed—. Which Mr Bridgen of Pater Noster Row will forward to Mr Bowen as You desired—& I hope he will give you advice thereof— I hope Events will once more open by peace the Communications & Correspondence of Friends. I was in hopes to have had legal authority to have communicated with You on this Subject of Peace But as there is one Person who always objects to me I now see I shall never be employed in Europe. I must not therefore venture to write either what steps I took or what the operation & effect of the steps I took in consequence of your Letter which I communicated to his Majestys Ministers. I am Dr Sir Your very humble Servant & I hope that Peace between our Countries will again before either You or I dye permett me to say how much I have been Your old invariable friend of four or five & twenty Years Standing