LEWIS, Matthew Gregory ('Monk Lewis', 1775-1818). Autograph note signed ('M G Lewis') with the first stanza of The Maid of Illea, n.p., n.d., 7 lines of verse, then asking if this is what was requested adding 'What an uncommonly stupid set of People, you must have got together by way of listeners', one page, 12mo (integral leaf torn away); SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816). Two autograph letters, one signed with initials, to [Richard] Peake [in the treasury office at Drury Lane], n.p., n.d., the first dated 'Monday', the second marked 'Private', the first sending a list of payments to be made including 'Pitman --- 50 Mr King --- 16 Glossop --- 20 Mrs Flood --- 5'; the second starting 'Move Heaven & earth for monday', explaining his absence and expressing his confidence, 'I know you will manage', and asking to be sent ¨10, together 3 pages, 8vo and 4to, the second with integral address leaf (tear repaired); SMITH, Horatio (1779-1849). 3 autograph letters signed, the first to an unidentified correspondent 142 Regent Street, 12 November 1824, warmly expressing gratitude to his correspondent, whom he has not met, for an unpleasant commission in offering his novel to Mr. Colburn, 2 pages, 4to, integral blank; the second to Joseph Snow, Brighton, 5 Hanover Crescent, 26 March 1830, declining a stewardship of the Literary Fund Society and sending a contribution, one page, 4to, integral address leaf (seal tear repaired); the third to 'My dear Sir' [his publisher H. Colburn], Brighton, 9 March 1843, returning the manuscript of a novel [Whitefriars by Emma Robinson], and declining to edit it, 'This Novel is perfectly free from the objection which the title had induced me to anticipate ... it is such a succession of battle - murder & sudden death - of plots, prisons, trap doors, haunted rooms ... & the Hero is so perfectly incompehensible & inconsistent', 3 pages, 8vo; BOADEN, James (1762-1839). Autograph letter signed ('J. Boaden') to Thomas Hill, n.p., 5 March [?1825], sending an advertisement for his 'Memoirs of the British Stage by the author of the Life of Kemble', saying 'The King expects such a work from me' and ending 'I ought to obtain handsome terms - it is now known what I can do', 3 pages, 4to (seal tear repaired); WHITE, Henry Kirk (1785-1806). Autograph letter signed (the signature excised and replaced) to 'The Editor of the Monthly Review', High Pavement, Nottingham, 8 February 1804, expressing forcefully his objection to the Review's opinion of his volume of verses Clifton Grove, in comparison with its reception in other periodicals, 3 pages, 4to (tears repaired), with manuscript reply in another hand; with a portrait engraving; together with 3 autograph letters by William Ogilvie, Sir William Drummond (initialled) and William Maginnis (initialled) and a letter signed by Thomas Campbell. (13)