[Henry Beveridge, Scottish historian and translator.] Autograph Letter Signed to Joseph L. Williams, responding to suggested corrections, and mentioning Dr Walter Graham Blackie of his publishers Blackie & Son, Glasgow.

The recipient is clearly not the American politician Joseph Lanier Williams (1810-1865), but rather an editor of Beveridge’s history of India at Blackie’s. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, but with diagonal crease at bottom right going through Beveridge’s signature. Folded for postage. Addressed to ‘Joseph L. Williams Esqr’ and signed ‘Henry Beveridge’. He begins by undertaking to ‘attend to the matters’ mentioned in Williams’s note. ‘Some time ago Dr Blackie [Walter Graham Blackie (1816-1906), brother of the head of the firm John Blackie] called my attention to Cheitore or Chittor as I see Thornton [i.e. Edward Thornton, author of ‘A Gazetteer of the Territories under the Government of the East-India Company, and of the Native States on the Continent of India’, 1854]. As the proof passes through my hands it will be easy to correct the necessary paragraph about the date you mention. I am not quite so sure as to Cochen but will keep it in view and take the first opportunity that occurs to correct a paragraph.’