2 Autograph Letters Signed to unnamed male correspondents.

Middleton (1769-1822) was consecrated Bishop of Calcutta in 1814. Both letters are 8vo. The first is 1 page, 8vo, and the second, 2 pages, 8vo. Both are creased and with a few closed tears, but in good condition. Letter one is attached along one edge to the remains of a stub. In the first letter, signed 'T. F. Calcutta', he asks if his correspondent 'will give the Bearer of this, Captain Lockett, who is now about to sail for England, a neatly bound Copy of my Vol. on the Gr[eek]. Article'. The handwriting of the second letter, also signed 'T. F. Calcutta', and written only a few months before Middleton's death, is difficult. The letter begins 'I was glad to find that the Inscription appeared to you to be such as the purpose requires: little things, however, should be perfect, or as nearly so as possible.' Consequently he asks that the accompanying copy (not present) can be substituted, and the other returned. He wishes to contribute towards 'the charges of the Sculptor. I think I <?> you that Dr. did not die in India, but had returned to Europe.' A concluding paragraph concerns another matter for which Middleton is obliged to his correspondent.