Autograph letter signed : [London], to Richard Gough, 1808 Feb. 9.

Written to his close friend, Richard Gough, the day after the fire which destroyed his printing office and warehouse. Nichols was re-printing Gough's British Topography and the third volume of John Hutchin's History and Antiquities of Dorset which Gough and Nichols saw through the press after Hutchins's death.
Recipient identified by Julian Pooley, 2018.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791); PML 9812-9815; volume IV, page 204.