[ Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician. ] Autograph Letter, with incomplete signature, to unnamed printer, regarding the paying of a bill for paper.

Author: 
Robert Simson (1687-1768), Scottish mathematician, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Glasgow
Publication details: 
Glasgow, 3 May 1736.
£280.00
SKU: 17986

1p., 8vo. In poor condition, on aged paper, with wear to extremities causing loss to text, including most of the signature, and with spike hole. Describing arrangements, with reference to 'my good friend Mr Clow', to pay the recipient 'the 49£ 7s for the paper', via 'Mr William Drummond who is to be found at Messrs Bayne and Adams York Street St James's'. The letter ends: 'If your pacel to Mr Foulis be not yet sent off, you will oblige me by putting in with it a doze packs of the best Mogul Cards made by Blanchard, but if the parcel be gone be pleased, if you can remember such a triffle, [sic] to send them with the first parcel coming here'.