Engaging autograph letter signed to the Revd Samuel Clarkson,
of Broughton, Manchester, thanking him for the kindness which dictated the lines accompanying your note, unfortunately he is in no way worthy of the compliments of Poets... effusions of this nature in the newspapers make me blush, he cannot come up to your standard of duty and has a nervous apprehension about the ordinary labour of Parl[iamentar]y life -- A few weeks will show, ending In future, I must urge you to take a better subject when the poetic fit is on, 4 sides 16mo, Rochdale, 26th January