Autograph Letter Signed from Sir James Mackintosh
June 23, (1828 · London
by MACKINTOSH, JAMES
London: 1 page, 16 mo, June 23, (1828. Mackintosh writes from Clapham Common, June 23, (1828). Tries to arrange a meeting with a friend. "While I had a house in Wimpole Street I often rode in Regent Park. Since my return here, it would be rather too great a distance. I do not know where I could conveniently meet you. I shall be at Holland House, Sunday, Monday & Tuesday, where I shall be more accessible to you. If you tell me, by Post, when you’d come I shall immediately answer you to say when I’d be a home. Yrs truly, J. Mackinoths.". SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH (1765-1832). Scottish philosopher, historian. Member of Parliament (1813). Recorder of Bombay (1806-11). Commissioner of Board of Control for India (1830). Professor of Law at Haileybury College (1818-24). Author of "Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy", "History of the Revolution in England in 1688", etc. Very slightly soiled. With vintage steel engraving of Mackintosh as "Recorder of Bengal". Rare in autograph material. (Inventory #: 13667J)