[NINETEENTH CENTURY AUTHORS]. HAYLEY, WILLIAM. Autograph letter signed ("W.H.") to John Nichols ("Dear Sylvanus in urbe"), editor of the Gentleman's Magazine, n.p., 17 April 1810, 2 1/2 pages, 4to, integral address leaf, tipped to larger sheet, first page a trifle soiled, seal hole in address leaf, with engraved portrait. Very good literary contents: Hayley mainly discusses Nichols' proposal to do justice to "our friend Clarke, who is scurrilously reviled in the Quarterly Review" (referring to a review of James Stanier Clarke's The Life of Nelson, 1809)--BOWLES, WILLIAM LISLE. Autograph letter signed to his publisher Thomas Cadell, Donhead, 18 July 1796, 3 pages, 4to, address panel, inlaid at second leaf. A fine letter: "...I shall publish together with the poem ['Hope, an Allegorical Sketch,' published as a book in 1796] you have in your hands, the first book of a larger work entitled 'The Spirit of Navigation & Discovery' -- it will be compris'd, if I finish it, in four books, each book to consist of about four hundred lines, in the stanza form, like the poem you have. The first book is nearly ready for the press, & I will send it [to] you in time to be printed with the other poem..." About a page of the letter comprises revised lines for "Hope," to be substituted for those in the manuscript already in Cadell's hands (these revisions, however, were not made in the first edition); Autograph letter signed to the Salisbury antiquary Henry Hatcher (see DNB), Bremhill, 24 May [?1833], 3 1/4 pages, 4to, first page with black mourning border, tipped to larger sheet, address panel, a few fold repairs, seal tear with loss of a few words (but given in pencil in a later hand), with a portrait. A long letter relating to Walton's The Compleat Angler with biographical information on Bishop Norley, Walton, Hawes, and mentioning the "receipt of Mr. Pickering's splendid Walton" edition; Autograph manuscript signed of 48 lines of verse beginning "Let me, let me sleep again, 1 1/2 pages, 4to, tipped into a copy of Sonnets, and other Poems, London, 1798, 12mo, contemporary calf, front cover detached, 6 engraved plates (the verse not from this edition) -- And: autograph letters signed of Robert Montgomery (2, relating to his books, with a printed poem, 1 page, 12mo, laid down), Thomas Hood (1, plus a fragment), the song writer Thomas Dibdin (2, regarding his songs to his music publisher, plus a document signed, all tipped to larger sheet), Horatio Smith (1, to Leigh Hunt thanking him for dedicating A Jar of Honey to him, 2pp., 8vo, 24 Dec. 1847), Sydney Smith (1), Alaric Watts (1, literary, mounting remnants); together with a fragment of an autograph manuscript by Robert Bloomfield (7 lines from his poem "Hazlewood Hall"), and an autograph manuscript signed by Thomas Hood the younger of his poem "The Fair Ophelia" (1 p., 8vo, a fair copy on "Fun Office" lilac-colored stationery). Virtually all with typed transcripts. (Milne) (18)

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[NINETEENTH CENTURY AUTHORS]. HAYLEY, WILLIAM. Autograph letter signed ("W.H.") to John Nichols ("Dear Sylvanus in urbe"), editor of the Gentleman's Magazine, n.p., 17 April 1810, 2 1/2 pages, 4to, integral address leaf, tipped to larger sheet, first page a trifle soiled, seal hole in address leaf, with engraved portrait. Very good literary contents: Hayley mainly discusses Nichols' proposal to do justice to "our friend Clarke, who is scurrilously reviled in the Quarterly Review" (referring to a review of James Stanier Clarke's The Life of Nelson, 1809)--BOWLES, WILLIAM LISLE. Autograph letter signed to his publisher Thomas Cadell, Donhead, 18 July 1796, 3 pages, 4to, address panel, inlaid at second leaf. A fine letter: "...I shall publish together with the poem ['Hope, an Allegorical Sketch,' published as a book in 1796] you have in your hands, the first book of a larger work entitled 'The Spirit of Navigation & Discovery' -- it will be compris'd, if I finish it, in four books, each book to consist of about four hundred lines, in the stanza form, like the poem you have. The first book is nearly ready for the press, & I will send it [to] you in time to be printed with the other poem..." About a page of the letter comprises revised lines for "Hope," to be substituted for those in the manuscript already in Cadell's hands (these revisions, however, were not made in the first edition); Autograph letter signed to the Salisbury antiquary Henry Hatcher (see DNB), Bremhill, 24 May [?1833], 3 1/4 pages, 4to, first page with black mourning border, tipped to larger sheet, address panel, a few fold repairs, seal tear with loss of a few words (but given in pencil in a later hand), with a portrait. A long letter relating to Walton's The Compleat Angler with biographical information on Bishop Norley, Walton, Hawes, and mentioning the "receipt of Mr. Pickering's splendid Walton" edition; Autograph manuscript signed of 48 lines of verse beginning "Let me, let me sleep again, 1 1/2 pages, 4to, tipped into a copy of Sonnets, and other Poems, London, 1798, 12mo, contemporary calf, front cover detached, 6 engraved plates (the verse not from this edition) -- And: autograph letters signed of Robert Montgomery (2, relating to his books, with a printed poem, 1 page, 12mo, laid down), Thomas Hood (1, plus a fragment), the song writer Thomas Dibdin (2, regarding his songs to his music publisher, plus a document signed, all tipped to larger sheet), Horatio Smith (1, to Leigh Hunt thanking him for dedicating A Jar of Honey to him, 2pp., 8vo, 24 Dec. 1847), Sydney Smith (1), Alaric Watts (1, literary, mounting remnants); together with a fragment of an autograph manuscript by Robert Bloomfield (7 lines from his poem "Hazlewood Hall"), and an autograph manuscript signed by Thomas Hood the younger of his poem "The Fair Ophelia" (1 p., 8vo, a fair copy on "Fun Office" lilac-colored stationery). Virtually all with typed transcripts. (Milne) (18)