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MEMBER OF CULPER SPY RING RIVINGTON, JAMES. Autograph Letter Signed, to Continental Congress member Jacob Read, promising to send buckles, stating that he has sent a copy of Charles Rollin's Roman History to Princeton, where James Bond Read [his brother] can go to read the book. 1 page, 4to, with integral address leaf; loss from seal tear at left edge affecting few letters of text, small hole at upper left, faint scattered staining, folds, addressed in his hand. New York, 1 November 1784
". . . [T]he Buckles mentioned in your letter shall be forwarded to Trenton by the first proper opportunity, my Clerk tells me the price . . . was five guineas . . . . "A sett of Rollins Roman History, 16 Volumes, was last Saturday forwarded to a new established Library society at Princeton, to which I presume Mr. James Bond Read will join himself with the other Students, and . . . derive the benefit without the expence of purchasing that voluminous work."
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