Autograph letter signed to J. F. Ellis,

Barrister and author (1795-1862). One page, 12mo. "Dear Ellis, / Doe v. Millett is very troublesome &c &c, and gave me infinite annoyance - but half the energy you have wasted in kicks at the drawer of the case, testator, partioners, members of family, and ever the unhappy Cornish tenements, and lastly on myself, who pleaded guilty to two blunders, and have altered them - would have carried you up to a tolerable understanding of the case, bopthered as it is - As the only resource, (having made the said alterations) I send the paper bakc, that you may kick it about your Chambers, which will do you a great deal of good: only do not draw a pedigree - or at least do not put it into the report." Heavily creased and with traces of a red seal.