Tea Leaves / Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to / the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year / 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, / notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)

by Francis S. Drake

Sir:

The Committee of Warehouses of the East India Company desire you will meet them at this house, on Thursday next, at twelve o'clock at noon, relative to the exportation of tea to America.

I am, sir,

Your most humble serv't,

Wm. Settle.

East India House, 25th June, 1773.

To Brook Watson,
Jonathan Clarke,
Frede'k Pigou, Junr.
Gilbert Barkly,
George Browne,
Roberts, Baynes & Roberts,
Wm. Kelly,
Greenwood & Higginson,
Benjamin Harrison,
Samuel Wharton,
Geo. Hayley & John Blackburn, Esqrs.

Gentlemen:

The enclosed newspapers contain the sentiments of the Americans with regard to the quantity of teas consumed in that country, and the fatal consequences attending buying it from foreigners, by leading them to purchase other articles of East India goods at the same markets which otherwise would not be an object, and which, of course, would be commissioned from the mother-country.

The memorial, which I had the honor to deliver, lately points out an undoubted method for gaining this trade.