Autograph Letter Signed to J.H. Burn, bookseller and ephemerist.

"Mr Burne/ 20 King Street/ Covent Garden".Two pages, c.10 x 7", chipped, part torn off, small hole, text clear. "Sir/ I return you the Catalogue of Periodicals filled up with all I now have in my Possession being above 600 Volumes in above 400 different Works./ I will give your young man half a Crown if he will copy it placing the Works according to their Dates in each Letter of the Alphabet-/ There are four Letters in the Catalogue want correcting which perhaps at his Leisure he might do with a fine pen as I have done & erasing the lower part of the first E in Edinburgh, in the enclosed." Verso: heading "Catalogue <1823>/ 7737 (J.G.)/ &c &c auxit C.G. Hofman qua mani ut vel bk lips 1737 - 15/- Jeffery <?> booksellr & Sharpe .....??/ Not want[ed?]> Note obscure by scrawl of ink or charcoal. Also on verso at an angle: "Mr Burne [sic] / 20 King Street/ Covent Garden". Is is same hand as letter?See #2077. See Hazlitt's Roll of Honour.