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W3355 TO WILLING AND WILLIAMSON From Rev Thomas Baker
Dec 20 1879
To: Willing and Williamson [10??] 712 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario
From: 3 Bold Street. Hamilton, Ontario



3 Bold Street, Hamilton Ont

Mr's Willing & Williamson

Dear Sirs,

You will help me by sending me as early as convenient the works mentioned on the opposite page. I have enclosed post office order for Due amount.

I am dear sirs

Yours respectfully

Thomas Baker

The Leopold Shakespeare, cloth - $3.50
[?Fleay's] Shakespeare Manual, 1.50
Max Muller on the Origin and growth of Religion, 2.75
Do on Science of do with a paper on Buddhism & translation of the Dhammapada: a path of Virtue, 2.25
Paradoxical Philosophy, 2.00
Smiles Self Help 2 copies, 2.20
[total]................................14.20

Discount 10 prct...............1.42
[total]................................12.78

I cannot afford $15.00 for Dean Stanley's Historical Memorials of Westminster Abby Illustrations. Could same work be furnished in cloth for $5 or 6 I would wish you to sent it to me. I would like Drinkwater's Siege of Gibraltar [60 cts/Rocks?] and Gibraltar, Nelson's [??].


1 See also W3353 for the letter and book list from the Bookseller(Willing and Williamson), to which Rev Thomas Baker is replying.




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