MANUSCRIPT. - [A group of five hand-written 'Memorandum' books, being copies of letters sent from an Englishman to various recipients. N.p.: 1757-1771.] 381pp., manuscript, 4to (various sizes from 231 x 190mm to 330 x 203mm.) Comprising 381pp. of densely-written copies of letters in a mostly legible hand sent from a man called 'Sullivan' and relating mainly to his business affairs in Lisbon. (Some creasing, browning, occasional minor soiling.) String-bound. Note: 'Sullivan' writes mainly to business contacts in London, Liverpool and Dublin regarding his business of importing goods into Lisbon. He buys tea from Holland Rotterdam and Gothenburg and brandy from France and Spain ('these are staple commodities'), and later he is involved in 'the lottery business' and writers letters to those that have invested ('I wish you were not in such a confounded hurry when you write to me'), and but after some years he returns to London and sets himself up as a 'Broker in the Exchequer' and seeks advice from a friend. An interesting account of the vagaries of life in European commerce in the 18th century (5).