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BURKE, EDMUND. Autograph letter signed ("Edm Burke") to E. Malone (probably Edmund Malone, the critic and author, friend of Johnson, Boswell, Burke, etc.), n.p., n.d. [London, 1787-1788]. 2 pages, 4to, on pale gray paper, remnants of mounting on verso of integral second leaf, with typed transcript. Concerning efforts to obtain a place for Malone to view the impeachment trial of Warren Hastings (on grounds of corruption and cruelty in his Indian administration), in which Burke played a prominant role for the prosectution. "I did take it for granted that you could not have missed a Ticket [to the trial], or rather that a Ticket could not have missed you -- & in Truth I have been so engaged (which I think you will easily believe) that I have not thought upon the Subject...S[i]r. Joshua [Reynolds], who is deaf, & for whom no place but our Box can secure a hearing has been long at work on me; I am apprehensive that I cannot accommodate him...The first days exhibition, or the second will satiate everything which is mere Eye Curiosity -- your Curiosity will begin when theirs Ends, & I have a moral Certainty of accommodating you pretty early in some good part of the court, by the exertion of the best Interest I have..." (Milne)

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BURKE, EDMUND. Autograph letter signed ("Edm Burke") to E. Malone (probably Edmund Malone, the critic and author, friend of Johnson, Boswell, Burke, etc.), n.p., n.d. [London, 1787-1788]. 2 pages, 4to, on pale gray paper, remnants of mounting on verso of integral second leaf, with typed transcript. Concerning efforts to obtain a place for Malone to view the impeachment trial of Warren Hastings (on grounds of corruption and cruelty in his Indian administration), in which Burke played a prominant role for the prosectution. "I did take it for granted that you could not have missed a Ticket [to the trial], or rather that a Ticket could not have missed you -- & in Truth I have been so engaged (which I think you will easily believe) that I have not thought upon the Subject...S[i]r. Joshua [Reynolds], who is deaf, & for whom no place but our Box can secure a hearing has been long at work on me; I am apprehensive that I cannot accommodate him...The first days exhibition, or the second will satiate everything which is mere Eye Curiosity -- your Curiosity will begin when theirs Ends, & I have a moral Certainty of accommodating you pretty early in some good part of the court, by the exertion of the best Interest I have..." (Milne)