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"P. S. Since the printing of M ^r. Hamilton’s Observations Bishop White has, in a public Company, declined to drink his health, assigning the pamphlet as a reason. If you have not seen it, no anticipation can equal the infamy of this piece. It is worth all that fifty of the best pens in America Could have said ag ^t. him, and the most pitiful part of the whole is his notice of you.”

On March 21, 1798, after explaining his pecuniary situation, Callender wrote to Jefferson: “. . . My sale has been rapid beyond all hope. In less than 5 weeks, 700 have gone off, and some commissions and subscribers are yet unanswered. A gentleman came lately six miles to Albany to buy a copy, and told our correspondent that in his country neighbourhood, he believed that he could sell 500 . . .”

The next part of this letter is concerned with Sedgwick & Co. See the next entry.

References to Jefferson occur.

Callender described this book to Jefferson in his letter of March 21, 1798, quoted in the previous entry: “. . . The next is to be a book of only ½ a dollar, good paper and print, and will I fancy sell fully faster than the other, as being of a more comestable size & price--the type close to contain much matter.--The Six per Cents, in quite a new light--the Indian wars--the power of making treaties--a Review of Fenno’s Gazette--are among the Chief Articles. I could have Sold this week, for the Country, 150 of 1791 but they are all, or as good as all, gone.

"If your good offices could get the bal ^s due, I think I shall not run Scores with the Society again.--With a little help, and M ^r. Bache’s and other Correspondence I could soon come to dispose of an edition of 2000. I will bring you a sample sheet of the print, paper and [torn away] agreeable, next week, one gentleman has promised to pay down at least 30 dollars for the new volume as soon as printed. If I Could afford to bye out of my money, like other people, I Could Sell many more, but this I Cannot do, which increases the wonder at my Sale of 700, of which only 190 are on Credit,--But after all I am in danger of Sticking for want of that help necessary to set up the Smallest huckster’s store--If I Could find any 4 ^th. person to do what M ^r. D----s, or ½ of what L----- or M ^r. Jefferson have already done, I would make myself heard very distinctly for a Considerable distance.

"I hope I need not add, that I have not ment ^d one word of the Society to any human being but you. If they would only keep their agreement for three months, till I get this piece out, I would do.”