A letter, dated from King’s College, Southwark, May 13th 1800, from Edward Hasted to John Latham requesting he subscribe to Hasted’s fourth volume of his History of Kent, and requesting the address of Willaim Latham. A single sheet of 15 manuscript lines, laid upon another sheet used as an envelope and addressed to John Latham Rumsey, Hampshire. The letter still bears a faint postmark but has lost its wax seal. Quarto: 240 x 180 mm. John Latham, known as the ‘grandfather of Australian ornithology,’ was the author of ‘A General History of Birds,’ published between 1821 and 1828, in eleven volumes.