Autograph letter signed to Triphook.

Poet, son of William Roscoe (1782-1843). One page, 4to, spike-hole, edges stained, fold marks, text clear. "I beg to enclose a Bill for £20.8.0 - for £12 due for & £8.8. - from Mr Roscoe / In the letter I believe there was some exchange of Books but I apprehend the account is correct tho' I have mislaid the particulars - / May I beg you to make my compliments to Mr & to believe be . . .". Some figures added in another hand ("5.8/3.3"). In A Dictionary of Book Collectors, part VII, p.3, it is revealed that Clarke's Bank failed in this year (1816) and Roscoe sought to make good his debts Scott-fashion. This is presumably the context of the letter. See Rev. James Aspinall on Roscoe's Library (1853).