Record ID:
106410
Accession number:
MA 9464
Description:
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 24.6 x 18.5 cm
Notes:
A penciled notation at the bottom of the page "Written one year previous to his attack of paralysis."
Address panel to "Mr. Lowndes / Book Seller / Fleet Street."
Written from Gower Street.
Removed from Letters of James Boswell.
Summary:
On the publication of a collection of the works of Mr. Foote; saying "Having long proposed a collection of Foote's Works, a considerable part of which are my exclusive property, but being very unwilling to undertake any thing that might appear unhandsome to a Trade to [illegible] I have ever wished to be a friend, I beg to know whether you are inclined to contribute your legal shares, or shares held by courtesy, in those pieces published by your family. A speedy answer will much oblige."
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