Letter from Mason the Coffee man, Cornhill, London, to his landlords Messrs, Clayton and Morris, Merchant Bankers [manuscript] : autograph manuscript signed, 1674.
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Letter from Mason the Coffee man, Cornhill, London, to his landlords Messrs, Clayton and Morris, Merchant Bankers [manuscript] : autograph manuscript signed, 1674.
Created/published
Cornhill, London, 1674 April.
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Associated name
Mason the Coffee man, sender.
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
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X.c.220
Folger-specific note
See also Folger V.b.377, v.1-145 ("Banking-related papers of Robert Clayton, John Morris, et al., from the Fairfax Library, circa 1650-1700") and other Clayton-Morris papers in the Folger collection. Transcription with accompanying dealer's description dated 12th August 1927 removed to curatorial file. From dealer's description: "In the early days of the London coffee trade “Mason ye Coffee man”, is struggling to make a living and writes a pleading letter to his landlords. He hopes to provide the rent, but money is also owed to him from sub-lets, “business is so Dwindled away of late, yt I now scarse take dayly : ye Mony I spend and my charge is upon ye mattr as great as when trade was more Rife…” due apparently to problems caused by moving from established premises at Glasshouse hall to new premises, “by yt tyme ye Exchange removed from Gressham Colledge … the Change Remouing Most of all my ould Customers had fixt themselues Elsewheare…” Ordered from Dean Byass, D9181, 2018-02-22, "Armory Athenaeum" catalog, item 7532.
Folger accession
270156