Bidspirit auction | ROSCOE WILLIAM: (1753-1831)

ROSCOE WILLIAM: (1753-1831) - ROSCOE WILLIAM: (1753-1831) English banker, lawyer, historian, botanist and art collector, best known as one of England´s first abolitionists, and as the author of the poem for children The Butterfly´s Ball, and the Grasshopper´s Feast (1802). A.L.S., W. Roscoe , one page, oblong 8vo, n.p. (Liverpool), n.d. ( ´Tuesd [a] y Morning, 10 o´clock , c.1822-30), to Mrs. Lawrence. Roscoe makes a request of his correspondent, ´If you should go out this morning in your cover´d carriage, & would do me the favour to call in Lodge Lane at any time before 2 o´clock I shall be happy to attend you to the Institution....´ . A couple of minor, light stains and some traces of former mounting to the corners of the verso, G