Creator
Robert Lowth
Title
Letter from Robert Lowth to his publisher, Robert Dodsley, acknowledging receipt of a grammar the day before and requesting seven more copies as gifts.
Date
(1762?)
Description
This extraordinary letter appears to date from 1762 and to involve the first edition of Lowth’s grammar. Lowth asked Robert Dodsley, the noted publisher, to prepare copies for Sir Charles Mordaunt, a Tory MP; Lord Sandys, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Francis Barrell, the owner of a large Kentish estate called Godinton; Edward Weston, a didactic writer and expert on European affairs; John Hawkesworth, founder of the periodical The Adventurer; and Benjamin Kennicott, a Hebrew scholar at Exeter College, Oxford.