Benjamin Flower, Cambridge, to Messrs. Cadell & Davies, Booksellers, Strand, London, 23 July 1804.

Gentn

         I will thank you to inform me how many Copies it will be convenient for me to send you of Archdeacon Blackburne’s works 7 Vols 8mo which are now ready for publication: the greater number you can find room for, the more it will accommodate me, as I am about removing to Harlow in Essex (where I shall confine myself in future to the printing business)   I will likewise thank you for your opinion which are the best Morning and Evening papers to advertise books in.  I have hitherto confined myself to 2 or 3—As I am about packing up my goods and cleaning my warehouse, your early answer will be esteemed a favour by Gentl

                     Yrs Respectfully

                                             B Flower

[at the bottom of the page in another hand is written: “desired him to send 100 Sets—”

Text: MS. Montagu d. 7, fols. 197-98, Bodleian Library, Oxford.