![HAZLITT, William (1778-1830). Autograph letter signed ('W. Hazlitt') to Peter George Patmore, [Paris], 7 August [1826], opneing 'I am damnably off here for money, as I have taken a house & garden ... If you could by any possibility raise 20¨, I will send you back Manuscript to that amount ... written on the spot since I have been here', one page, 4to, conjugate address leaf.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1995/CKS/1995_CKS_05424_0344_000(103237).jpg?w=1)
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HAZLITT, William (1778-1830). Autograph letter signed ('W. Hazlitt') to Peter George Patmore, [Paris], 7 August [1826], opneing 'I am damnably off here for money, as I have taken a house & garden ... If you could by any possibility raise 20¨, I will send you back Manuscript to that amount ... written on the spot since I have been here', one page, 4to, conjugate address leaf.
Hazlitt had gone to live in Paris in July 1826, in order to write his Life of Napoleon. Patmore sent him the money and received several manuscripts, one 'On the want of money', all published in The New Monthly Magazine. Published in The Letters of William Hazlitt, ed. H.M.Sikes, no.143, from the Complete Works, ed. Howe, vol.XIII, 354.
Hazlitt had gone to live in Paris in July 1826, in order to write his Life of Napoleon. Patmore sent him the money and received several manuscripts, one 'On the want of money', all published in The New Monthly Magazine. Published in The Letters of William Hazlitt, ed. H.M.Sikes, no.143, from the Complete Works, ed. Howe, vol.XIII, 354.