[Rarebooks] FS: Cleveland's Exchange Tables, 1814

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A HANDY RESOURCE FOR AMERICAN MERCHANTS, WITH AN INTERESTING MERCANTILE ASSOCIATION 




Cleveland, Charles. Exchange Tables, Shewing the Value in Dollars and Cents of Any Sum of Exchange on London, From 1d. to 5000l. Sterling. From 25 per cent Discount, to 10 per cent Advance. Boston: Printed by Lincoln & Edmands, for the author, [1814]. Oblong 4to, in a dos-a-dos binding of quarter red calf and boards, printed paper label on one side reading “Discount” and on the other reading “Advance.” [38], [ii] blank, [14] pp. Some foxing and minor staining, the blank leaf separating the two sections is browned, as are the endleaves, but still a very good copy. 



Inscribed on the first blank, “Willard Peele Esq. from his Friend Charles Cleveland, Boston, July 22, 1816.” Peele (1795-1871) was an eminent merchant and shipowner from Salem, and for many years was Master of the Marine Society. His papers are at the Peabody Essex Museum. 



“Charles Cleveland came to Salem, Mass., at the age of twelve years; made a voyage to Africa; was a clerk; and finally was Deputy Collector in the Custom House, remaning there until 1802. He then came to Boston, and was a stockbroker and dealer in dry goods for over twenty years. Finally, he gave up business, becoming greatly interested in a mission to the poor of the city, and in 1838 he was ordained. From that time to the day of his death he was one of the most useful and honoured citizens of Boston. ‘Father Cleveland’ was known to every one by name at least, and he was liberally furnished with the means to carry out the work of active charity in which he delighted” (Notes & Queries, 4 th Series, Sept. 28, 1872, p. 246). 



This exchange table is an early manifestation of Cleveland’s urge to serve, in this case his fellow merchants. As peace negotiations with Britain were opened in January 1814, this would have been a very useful resource for merchants and traders hoping to take advantage of reinvigorated trade at the end of the War of 1812. A second edition was published in 1838 with additional tables. 

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