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John Morgan

Role

Bushrod Washington sold a copy of John Marshall's The Life of George Washington to Morgan, who subsequently arranged for its publication in London, England.

Description

John Morgan was a bookseller, publisher, and stationer in Philadelphia. From 1801 to 1802 he was a partner with pamphleteer (and future M.O.P.) William Cobbett in Cobbett & Morgan, a London publishing firm. Shortly after returning home, he published works by Alexander Mackenzie and William Forsyth. Morgan is listed in an 1804 Philadelphia Directory as a "pocket book manufacturer." 

Citations

"The Life of George Washington, Editorial Note," in Charles Hobson, ed., The Papers of John Marshall Digital Edition (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Rotunda, 2014). 

James Robinson, The Philadelphia Directory for 1804, 165.

"To Thomas Jefferson from John Vaughan, 8 May 1802," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-37-02-0349. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 37, 4 March–30 June 1802, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010, pp. 431–435.]

William Cobbett to John Morgan, 20 February 1811, AbeBooks.

Pierce W. Gaines, "Two Letters Written by William Cobbett from America," The Yale University Library Gazette, Volume 48, Number 1 (July 1973), 51n.