A detailed invoice of goods received by William Carey in India by ship from England, entered (in Carey’s hand) February 1812.

Includes four boxes of printing type; also some cloth, millboards, books, magnifying glass, clocks, microscope, books from William Button (over £134), and other items. The total bill came to just over £515!  Also received were 3000 copies of various unnamed pamphlets, along with 12 pairs of “cloggs” and one “Sunday Pair pattens—a present.” Carey adds this note: “also some few Books a present from D Lister Esqr   let there be a Letter of acknowledgement for these    this Friend has sent presents before, he has a great regard for the Mission.”[2]

Text: Eng. MS. 387, fol. 20a, John Rylands University Library of Manchester. The invoice is in Carey’s hand, with notes on some of the items. David Lister of Hackney contributed two guineas to the BMS in 1800-1801 and 1804-1805 (see Periodical Accounts, vol. 2, p. 205; vol. 3, p. 134).