| Transcript or Index | Sir,
A friend of mine having brought from Paris a
copy of Faublas*, which i prefer to that, which you sent me,
I wish you to sell the copy which I had from you
I have sent it by Hunt’s Waggon in a small box,
& with it Bell’s anatomy 3 0 - Orfila on Poisons 2 0,
Dr Smith & Dr Male & an inferior copy of Ven &
Priapi [?Venus and Priapus], to be sold for what they will fetch.
I saw in Lackingtons Cat. some time ago, “remarkable
Trials” 2 0. 4vo – which I applied for thro’ my bookseller
here, but they were sold. I wish you would procure me
“The trial of Ch Angus for the murder of Miss Burns Liverpool 8vo.
- of Michael Whiting for poisonoing
- of Miss Butterfield for poisoning Mr Scawen 1775
- of Allen for the murder of Dulany 8vo
- of Donellan for the murder of Sir Th. Broughton.
- of Motherills Trial for a rape.
I have the state Trials, Select Trials,
for murders from 1733 to 1741 4 vols 12mo – Trials for
Adultery 2 vol. 12mo. 1780 – annals of Gallantry 3 0 8vo
1815. I will thank you to look into different catalogues
for trials for murders & & [sic] send me a few volumes, or if you
meet with any sales, to purchase some.
This will oblige sr,
yr obedt servt
H Pearson
Norton Vicarage
nr Sheffield
Decr 11
1823
* “The Amours of the Chevalier de Faublas” by Jean-Baptise Louvet de Couvray |