COBBETT, William.

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Autograph letter signed, to his friend and publisher John Morgan. An unpublished letter from William Cobbett to his Philadelphia publisher, agent, business partner and friend John Morgan, sent during Cobbett's incarceration in Newgate Prison, where he was imprisoned from 1810 to 1812 for publicly criticizing the flogging of several militiamen at Ely. Cobbett is undaunted, writing "I am as well as I ever was in my life time, and all my affairs are as prosperous, and more so, than ever. The attempt to stifle me has completely failed". Cobbett's thoughts were still on his gardening and agriculture, requesting that Morgan send him seeds from Philadelphia, that he can plant in his Botley Estate in Hampshire when released from prison: "Mr Lovering is so kind as to take out a commission for me for more seeds of trees, respecting which I have written to our worthy and faithful and dear friend North... If it should so happen that Mr. North should be from town at the proper time for collecting the seeds (next fall) I am sure you will be so kind as to do it for me. Ship them to London... I will pay the amount to your order on sight".Cobbett had come to know Morgan in Philadelphia, where he lived from 1793 to 1800. Upon Cobbett's return to Britain they formed a publishing and bookselling venture (Cobbet & Morgan) where they published several works from 1801 to 1802. Morgan returned to America in 1802, but continued to publish Cobbett's works afterwards, publishing his Collection of Facts

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