Fragmented 1766 letters and notices in London Evening Post
A long mixed extract features personal letters from London dated June 23 1766 debating English sensibility and literary merit, plus poems, moralizing stanzas and references to Boyle and Burnet. It includes local notices, parliament price concerns, ship news, trades, and a broad Elizabethan era style digest of letters from Philadelphia Leghorn and other places with stock quotes and marbles pastime anecdote.
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London Evening Post
Meres
Thames
Billingsgate
S &c. Humanus
Brandy and Raisin Wine Offered At Strand Warehouses
Old Dublin era advertises Brandy at 5s 6d per gallon and Raisin Wine at 3s per gallon. Mandle’s Raigin Wing and Brandy Warehouse on Katherine Street showrooms claim six thousand gallons of aged wine, with Jamaica Rum, Fortegn-like brandy, and other spirits sold in various quantities. Also warns against counterfeit Dr Watker’s Jesuits Drops and advertises Royal Exchange warehouses for delivery, with caveats on returns and charges. A bold sales pitch highlights extensive stock, country orders, and free carriage within London.
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Margery Mandle
Katherine Street
Strand
A& E
Jamaica
London
Mountain
Port
Lisbon
Wenmqa WN and Co
Royal Exchange
the India Company
Ashley
Charles Wenman.and Co. Royal Exchange
Key's Antiscorbutic Fluid promotes scurvy cure
Attestations from gentlemen of the faculty declare the fluid’s superior power to cure scurvy external or internal. It is sold at multiple London shops, in half-pint bottles at six shillings, with directions provided.
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Baker’s
Fixchange
Bull
Ludgate-hill
Dearn
Piccadilly
Dyson
Liverpoole
Mr. Monk
Chester
Mr. Key
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Taylor
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Cruizer
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Miller
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