Quotation from James Raven

I would not be surprised if I have posted this before but I cannot see where, if I have. On page 152 of a book called Publishing Business in Eighteenth-century England (Boydell Press, UK) James Raven writes

Of many examples, the Baptist minister and prolific hymn-writer, Benjamin Beddome (1717-95), used his co-religionist and Little Britain bookseller, Aaron Ward (d.1747) as receiver of all his correspondence during his visit to London in 1740 (and probably on other occasions). Ward sent some of the letters on to Beddome's London lodgings but, like Pepys and many others before him, Beddome visited Ward and the printing houses of Little Britain as a way of meeting people and learning of the latest news and publications. From Ward, Beddome collected his latest correspondence, leaving notes of reply and letters to others implicated in the latest news.

Aaron Ward

Aaron Ward was a London printer and bookseller from about 1721 or 1724 until his death in 1747. Previously he had been at The Duck. He was based at the sign of the King's Arms in Little Britain. Beddome had his post sent there when he was in London in 1740. Aaron's son John Ward carried on the business until his own death in 1758.