Small collection of Manuscript Papers, 1795-1800
by CRAMOND, James and William, and Thelusson Brothers
Thellusson Brothers & Co.. (VIRGINIA ASSOCIATIONS-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BRITISH-AMERICAN MERCHANTS) CRAMON James and William, and Thellusson Brothers & Co.. Small collection of Manuscript Papers, 1795-1800. Philadelphia, New York, and London: 1795-1800. 4to. and Folio. 9 documents totaling 23 pages. A collection of nine business letters between James and William Cramond of Philadelphia and New York with Thellusson Brothers & Co., in London on variou enterprises including the purchase and surveying of land in Virginia. Here a an interesting group of papers all concerned with the commercial dealings of James and William Cramond, merchants. Four are ALS's (ten pages), including important letter (four pages, dated September 5, 1798) from Thellusson Brothe & Co., to James Cramond proposing to establish an Anglo-American relationship dealing in tobacco, coffee, sugar, indigo, fine cottons, etc. "We shall confi ourselves in this to communicate to you the state of our market...We hope & trust to have a very extensive correspondence with America, thro' your means those of Messrs. Philips, Cramond & Co...." One letter (three pages, dated January 21, 1797) is from James in New York to William in Philadelphia about business: two are "duplicate" letters (six pages, dated January 4, 1796 and M 25, 1797), from James in London to William in Philadelphia; two are extracts letters written to the great London merchant company, Thellusson & Co. (six pages, dated April 3, 1799 through December 7, 1800); one is a large folio (August through October 1799) account current with the late James Cramond of York and Thellusson Brothers & Co. There is a detailed two and a half pages from William to Thomas Lambourne (May 29, 1797) entirely about surveying Cramond's lands in Virginia, sending Lambourne to that state with complete instructions. Little is known of Lambourne, a surveyor from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, but a painting he did is known of Joseph Priestley's house exis at the Royal Society of Chemistry in London. The last is a half-page ALS (Ma 23, 1795) from John Richard Junr. to William about two deeds, "Nichols to Morris," which were sent to him in Virginia which "were by me left with Benja Harrison Junr. Esq. of Richmond, who advises that the necessary acknowledgmen. (Inventory #: 39060)