Autograph Letter Signed to the Rev. Henry Blunt, Pau, Pyrenees (DNB)

Two pages, fol., fragile, sl. chipped, inch round hole in second page with some loss of text. Hatchard reports on the distribution of copies of his book ["A Family Exposition of the Pentateuch: Genesis" (J. Hatchard, 1841)] as "From the Author", giving a substantial list occupying the second page (c.80 names consisting of the great and the good, with excisions, corrections and additions, with six names ticked and three show multiple copies). He tells him how many copies have been printed of the first and second editions, the issuing of the second he expects to give the first "a lift". He also reports on the improved health of his wife and his father's [John] suffering from his "old complaint the gout". He has heard his son [Thomas Goodwin Hatchard, later Bishop of Mauritius (DNB)] preach "an excellent sermon" (Road to Emmaus)