Autograph Letter Signed from Emma Roberts, author of 'Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan', to William Jerdan, editor of the 'Literary Gazette'

1p., 8vo. 22 lines. Fair, on aged and worn paper. Addressed on reverse to 'William Jerdan Esqr | Grove House'. On wove paper watermarked 'G & R TURNER | 1826'. The letter can thus be dated from between 1826 and 1829, the year 'Ackermann's Repository of the Arts' ceased publication. Written in a difficult, hurried hand. She has received a letter from 'Mr Ackermann', saying that the package which Jerdan was 'kind enough to promise should go in your bag yesterday I having given it to you too late for the boy on Monday, has not reached him'. She asks Jerdan to oblige her by 'dispatching it to day as it contains extracts from my work to be forwarded instantly to <?> in order to be inserted in an article for next months magazine'. If the letter is lost she asks for the boy to call on her on his way to London, and she will 'send other extracts that may do as well'. She would be sorry to give Jerdan any more trouble about it, and is only 'anxious that Mr Ackermann should have something as he has been so very kind'.