From Joseph Donath (unpublished)
Phil Octr. 27th. 1786.
Your Excellency!

Having received from Vienna a Chest of Tokay wine of an exceeding good and genuine quality I find no body to offer it to with more propriety than Your Excellency as the best judge of its value. Therefore Your Excellency will pardon my boldness in addressing you on this Account by letter humbly requesting Your Excellency’s custom.

The price of each bottle is 11s. 3d. by the dozen, a little more than primecost and charges, tho’ it may seem extravagent to those, who are unacquainted with it. Flattering myself with Your Excellency’s Orders I have the honour to be with the greatest respect Your Excellency’s Most humble and Obedient Servant

Joseph Donath
at Mr. Delacroix’s in second between
market and Chesnut Streets
Endorsed: Donath
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