letter 7
Providence, Sept. 24, 1790.
Sir,
I have to acknowledge the Receipt of a Letter from
Mr Remsen,
written by Direction of your Excellency.—My grateful Thanks are
due for this Mark of Attention, as well as for your Excellency's
favourable Notice of my Name, in a late Letter to my worthy Friend
Mr Howell:
Agreeably to Order, the Providence Gazette shall with great
Pleasure be forwarded by Post, so long as the Publication thereof
may go on: But labouring as I long have done under many
Discouragements, particularly in the Countenance afforded and
continued to an antifederal Competitor (who obtruded himself with
a printing Apparatus sold by me, under an express Stipulation
that it should never be used here) I have in Contemplation to
relinquish my typographical Concern, and adopt, if within the
Compass of my Power, some other Line of Business, more adequate to
the Support of a
numerous Family. After a long printing Career, I shall reluctantly
surrender to my said Competitor the Remains of a small Business,
established with much Toil, Care and Expence; but should the
Measure eventually take Place, your Excellency will be enabled to
account for my Paper not arriving at your Office.
With the highest Consideration for your Excellency's Character
and literary Attainments, and zealous Attachment to the Government
in which you hold so distinguished a Station, I have the Honour to
be, very respectfully, your Excellency's obedient and devoted
Servant,
Jo
n Carter.
His Excellency Thomas Jefferson, Esq.
r
[On back, in an unknown hand: 'Carter John |
rec.d
Novem.r 2.d | 1790'; in Jefferson's
hand: 'Carter John
rec.d Nov. 2.']
