Nancrede, Joseph, 1761-1841
Dates
- Existence: 1761 - 1841
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Joseph Nancrede letters
Collection
Identifier: Mss 800378
Mss 800378
Date(s):
1800 to 1802
Scope and Contents
Six letters from Joseph Nancrede to John Wheelock concerning the manuscript of Wheelock's Philosophical history of the advancement of nations, with an inquiry into the cause of their rise and decline. Nancrede was trying to find a publisher and took it to London in 1801 to obtain the interest of the Earl of Dartmouth. The book was never published.