The Documentary history of the state of New-York; arranged under direction of the Hon. Christopher Morgan, secretary of State. By E. B. O'Callaghan ...

396 PAPERS RELATING TO
HUGH GAINE TO SIR WM JOHNSON,
CONCERNING THE INDIAN PRAYER BOOK.
Sir
Your favour of the 12th ultimo from Fort Stanwix, is now
before, which I should have answered much Sooner, had I not
well known you were deeply ingaged in Business of greater
consequence to your Country, and I rejoice to hear you have so
happily succeeded in the same.
I expect to have the Prayer Book finished by Christmas, but
as it will make several sheets more than was at first imagined, I
am confident the Binders will expect 2s. instead of Is 6 for the
plain Ones Please to let me know how many you'll want in
Morroco Leather. I heard the Revd Mr Ogilsby say, he should
have Occasion for a few neatly bound.
With Regard to the Price of the Printing I will only say this,
that when the Bargain Mr Weyman made, is completed, the
Printer will have but very little for his Trouble, and that there
would be a much greater Benefitt resulting from English at
half the Price. However I want no more than what is reasonable which I am very certain you will allow me.
The Difference to me in an Impression of a 1000 or 400, with
Regard to the Labour, would not have been ~5 and should have
been no more to you than that of the Paper, but now that is too
late to be thought of.
I have sent to Boston for a set of Hutchinson's History of
Massachusetts-Bay, and there is not a gilt 4to Bible in this City
to be sold, but I shall endeavor to get you one by the Spring, if
I should run it by way of Falmouth, as we have all agreed not to
send for any Goods this Winter. I am
your Very humble Servant
HUGH GAINE.
New-York Nov. }
19, 1768.
P. S. If any of the Common Prayers are to be sent to London, if they are sent in sheets in my Opinion it may do, as they
can be bound there to satisfaction,