HASTINGS, Warren (1732-1818). Three autograph letters signed, the first to 'Dear Stuart', Fort St George, 18 January 1772, acknowledging 'The pleasure which you express in the news of my Appointment ... I promise myself great advantages from your Experience, Abilities & Friendship', 2 pages, 4to (folds weak); the second to John White in London, Daylesford House, 6 April 1802, thanking him for 'the trouble which you have kindly taken to authenticate the important fact which you formerly communicated to me relative to RA Nubkishen', 2 pages, 4to, integral address leaf (browned); the third to 'Miss Trifusis' [Elizabeth Trefusis, (1763-1808), the Cornish poet], Daylesford House, 1 July 1808, thanking her for the volumes of poetry and 'the place which you had so beautifully assigned to me in them' and explaining, 'I have suffered so much from the wounds inflicted during a long course of years on my reputation, that I am more sensible of public testimonies of esteem', 4 pages, 4to, integral address leaf, postmark, docketed, (browned)