9105. WHALE OIL, Candles.—
A Mr.
Barrett has arrived here [Paris] from Boston
with letters of recommondation from Governor
Bowdoin, Cushing and others, * * * to get
the whale business put on a general bottom, instead
of the particular one which had been settled,
the last year, for a special company. * * *
I propose to Mr. Barrett that he should induce
either his State, or individuals, to send a sufficient
number of boxes of the spermaceti candle
to give one to every leading house in Paris;
I mean to those who lead the ton; and, at the
same time to deposit a quantity for sale here
and advertise them in the
petites affiches.—
To John Adams. Washington ed. i, 498.
(P.
1785)
