Autograph letter signed to Henry Blackett of Hurst & Blackett, publishers.

Miscellaneous writer and inventor (1810-1889). Three pages, 8vo, good condition. He asks for his authorial allowance of copies to be sent to his brother's at the Palace. He nominates other people he wants copies sent to, and adds "(The United States ought to take a few copies, as I have thousands of friends there, - & the 1/4 dollar reprints wont satisfy them: a good English book is a luxury well appreciated in the land of cottonpaper & indifferent print.)" He asks for a copy to be sent to Edward Walford of "The Times" - "possibly he may give it a [worldwide?] notice. (Further I suggest nothing but leave all the working for a book to your own wellproved skill." In a postscript he adds: "A friend of mine is off to Australia tomorrow: can he do anything for the book in question with your agent there?-"