Invoice, Leavitt, Lord & Co. to Cahoon, Carter & Co., 14 October 1836
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Source Note
Leavitt, Lord & Co., Invoice, , New York Co., NY, to , [, Geauga Co., OH], 14 Oct. 1836; printed form with manuscript additions in unidentified handwriting; docket in handwriting of Marcellus Cowdery; one page; JS Office Papers, CHL.
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Document Transcript
| 4 Setts Ency[clopedia] Americana.— 20 | 80.00 |
| 1 Wheaton’s Law. | 2.00 |
| 1 Locke’s Essays.— | 4.50 |
| 2 Syriac Testament $4.00 | 8.00 |
| 1 Surgery Illustrated, | 4.50 |
| 4 Goodrich’s Geography. | 10.00 |
| Websters Dict[ionar]y ◊. | 4.00 |
| 2 Hooper’s [Dicty] 4 | 8.00 |
| 24 Hebrew Man[ua]l 1.75 | 42.00 |
| 12 Hahn’s Bible 3. | 36.00 |
| 24 Poly[glo]t Bible. small 87½ | 21.00 |
| 24 [Polyt Bible]. large 87½ | 21.00 |
| 24 Pocket [Bible] 62 | 15.00 |
| 4 doz Abrg & Atlas 850 | 34.00 |
| 11 [doz] Kirkam’s Gram[mar] 5.00 | 55.00 |
| 2 [doz] Webste[r]s US. 450 | 9.00 |
| 1 M Quills | 6.00 |
| 4 doz Daboll’s Arith c 225 | 9.00 |
| 3 Dick’s Works 150 | 4.50 |
| 32 V. Family Lib[rar]y 45 | 14.40 |
| 300 Webstes R Book 1. | 25.00 |
| 100 Murray’s Reader | 18.75 |
| Boxs & ctge [cartage] | 3.00 |
| $434.65 |
Footnotes
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Printed text ends; unidentified handwriting resumes.
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Four sets of the thirteen-volume Encyclopedia Americana (1836).
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2
Henry Wheaton, Elements of International Law (1836).
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3
A. Sidney Doane, Surgery Illustrated (1836).
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4
S. Griswold Goodrich was the author of several geography textbooks, including A System of School Geography (1836).
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5
Probably Robert Hooper’s Lexicon Medicum, or Medical Dictionary (1824).
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Presumably a reference to an edition of Jedidiah Morse, Geography Made Easy: Being An Abridgement of the American Universal Geography, first published in 1818.
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Samuel Kirkham, English Grammar in Familiar Lectures (1835).
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Nathan Daboll, Daboll’s Schoolmaster’s Assistant, Improved and Enlarged. Being a Plain Practical System of Arithmetick (1828).
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The Works of Thomas Dick (1836).
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10
Probably refers to Lindley Murray, The English Reader (1836).
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The cost associated with transporting goods, which were originally transported by cart. (“Cartage,” in American Dictionary [1828].)
An American Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibit, I. the Origin, Affinities and Primary Signification of English Words, as far as They Have Been Ascertained. . . . Edited by Noah Webster. New York: S. Converse, 1828.
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Docket in handwriting of Marcellus Cowdery.
