A letter, dated from King’s College, Southwark, March 20th 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 William Latham. A single sheet of 12 manuscript lines, Quarto: 240 x 180 mm. The left-hand side of the letter has been taped, and was once probably mounted in a book – possibly, Hasted’s History of Kent. 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.