Letter from Joseph Priestley to Unknown Recipient

Letter from Joseph Priestley to Unknown Recipient
Number of Pages: 
3
Date: 
July 26, 1791

Joseph Priestley writes an unknown recipient and notes that he has enclosed "two copies of my Paper for the Philosophical Transactions." In addition, Priestley requests a "fresh stock of retorts, tubes, etc" to replace the supplies that "the Goths and Vandals" destroyed during the Birmingham riots. Transcript included.

Time Period: 
Location: 
MC 1998.1, B1, F11
Origin: 
Gift of Marion Hutchinson Button (Mrs. Temple Fay)