John Foster, Downend, near Bristol, to Henry Colburn, Conduit Street, London, 21 January [?] [sometime after 1806].

Near Bristol, Jan. 21.

Sir,

         I trust you will excuse it if I am not quite regular in applying directly to you for the Literary Gazette.  I do so because I am totally unacquainted with any intermediate agents for periodical works; such as news-men, &c.  and because you appear, in the advertisements, as the Proprietor of this paper.---It will probably need, at most, but a line directed from you to the publishing office.  I wish to have the papers from the beginning of this year---there are probably three already published.  They can accompany that of next Saturday---all the 4 included in one frank, or at most in two. ---

         Should there be the least apprehension as to regular payment, I refer you to M.r Conder, Bookseller, St.  Paul’s Ch. Yard.

         Please to direct them, and the successive ones in the series, to be addressed to the Rev. John Foster, Downend, near Bristol.

         I am, Sir, yours respectfully

                                 J. Foster

Text: MS. Montagu d. 7, fols. 212-13, Bodleian Library, Oxford.