Autograph Letter Signed ('L: D: Campbell') from Captain Lawrence Dundas Campbell [to either of his publishers Thomas Cadell or William Davies], concerning the placing of advertisements for two of his books.
Author:
L. D. Campbell [Captain Lawrence Dundas Campbell], editor of the Asiatic Annual Register [Thomas Cadell, jnr (1773-1836); William Davies (d.1819)]
Publication details:
St. Alban's Hotel, St. Alban's Street [London]. 'Wednesday' [circa 1808].
£45.00
SKU: 13230
1p., 4to. Spike hole. In good condition, on aged dusty paper. The letter reads: 'Dear Sir, I must request, as a particular favour, that you will advertise both the "Reply" and the "Letter on the Charges &c" in all the Morning and Evening papers both on Friday, and on Monday next. | I am | Dear Sir, | Very faithfully yours | L: D: Campbell'. From the Cadell and Davies papers, the two books referred to having been published by the firm for Campbell: 'A reply to the strictures of the Edinburgh Review, on the foreign policy of Marquis Wellesley's administration in India' (1807) and 'A letter addressed to a member of the present Parliament on the "Articles of Charge" against Marquis Wellesley' (1808).