Autograph Letter Signed from the poet Henry Rowe, Rector of Ringshall, Suffolk, to his publishers [Cadell & Davies], rejecting an offer from them, and making a counter-offer, regarding the stock of 'Poem's, published two years before.

1p., 8vo. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. Docketed on reverse: 'Rev: Mr. Rowe | Feby. 1798'. Signed 'Henry Rowe' and addressed 'Gentlemen' (from the context clearly his publishers). The letter concerns Rowe's 'Poem's (London: Cadell & Davies, 1792), published, according to the British Critic, 'with the hope of alleviating the distresses of the author and his family'. The letter begins: 'The proposal you made of delivering me Fifteen Copies for Five Pound, will in no respect answer my purpose'. He will, however, in order to settle the account, 'and which is the only offer I shall ever have it in my power to make while in the present situation, give you Ten Pound for one third of the Books now in your possession, for which I will send immediately'. He will continue 'in like manner to take a part, till the Demand is exonerated'.Henry Rowe, a relation of the poet Samuel Rogers, was educated at Eton, King's College, Cambridge (he is not in Venn and Venn), and Brasenose College, Oxford, where according to the Alumni Oxonienses he matriculated 27 December 1768, aged 18. Rowe was rector of Ringshall in Suffolk.