Autograph Letter Signed "A.S. Valpy", to an unnamed correspondent.

Printer, editor, classicist, and publisher. Three pages, 8vo, minor damage but text clear and complete. "The Virgil [pubd. 1819 re.BLC] was I assure you sent thro Baldwins at the time it was published but the first 10 Nos are not mine & therefore I have no choice in giving away a copy - I forward you a copy of early Poems [?Sanderson, "Poems chiefly sacred original and translated"] - they are mine, & not my Fathers. I know nothing of the prose trans[latio]n of Faust. I am sorry you have not patronised Shakespeare, as you said you sh[oul]d like to have it, because if you [underlined] cannot afford it - I [underlined] must despair of an adeqate [sic] sale among a lower class- Yr son is no doubt reconciled to his fate - had he been as good a whig as yrself, he wd have been in statu quo - but tempora mutantum [sic]!!".