Box 1

Letter and invoice from James Rice, Baltimore, to William DuBourg, Georgetown College, relating to DuBourg's purchase of the following books: Mair's Introduction; Dowlins (Dowling's?) & Johnson's Bookkeeping, Spanish Grammar, Goldsmithis History of Greece, and Walker's Dictionary. Rice references sending additional items later: the "Spanish Clasic [sic]," which he will procure from Philadelphia and "the Globes you mention of being at my Brothers."

Letter from William DuBourg, Georgetown College, to John Hillen, Water Street, Baltimore, requesting a quantity of "good soule and upper leather" to supply a "College of about 50 boarders for the space of 3 or four months." DuBourg notes that the present financial circumstances of the College dictate he cannot pay cash and asks for an extension of credit.

Letter and invoice from James Rice, Baltimore, to William DuBourg, Georgetown College, relating to DuBourg's purchase of Guthrie's Geography; Goldsmith's History of Greece; Nepos' Latin; and Fleurie's Catechism. Rice notes that he was not able to procure Brooks' Gazetteer, Harris' On the Globe, or the London edition of Davis' Grammar in Philadelphia.