Autograph Letter Signed "RPWard" to an unnamed correspondent [publisher, John Murray?].

Novelist and historian (see DNB). One page, 8vo, minor defects, brief annotation by another hand ("author of Tremaine"). He is discussing his progress with "An historical essay on the real character and amount of precedent of the revolution of 1688 / in which the opinions of Mackintosh, Price, Hallam, Mr. Fox, Lord John Russell, Blackstone, Burke, and Locke, the trial of Lord Russell, and the merits of Sidney, are critically considered" (Lodnon, 1838). He says "I avail myself of Mr. Swinburne's leaving this for Town, to send you the disquisition on Lord Russell, to make No VI of the Appendix. If I can be a proper judge, I think it the best part of my work. I also send a sort of avant propos to be printed after the Titke Page. / I am still without proofs, which I really cannot account for. Perhaps this delay will give you another paper on the Oxford Decree, so reviled by Fox. It will be however short. The whole will make a respectable volume. Pray ley me have Proofs."