James Claypoole's Letter Book: London and Philadelphia, 1681-1684

vii, 256 pp. "The letters that make up this book present a vivid account of the life of an active and successful businessman in the latter seventeenth century. The London Quaker merchant James Claypoole was by turns generous and penny-pinching, forbearing with important clients intolerant with others, deeply religious, often irritable, but certainly never dull."