[Hendrik Fagel, Greffier of Holland, to the London bookbinder James Hering.] Autograph Letter from Fagel, giving instructions to Hering regarding the binding of books on Kaspar Hauser and Eugene Arram, and asking about Hauser's activities in England.

1p., 8vo. On bifolium. Nineteen lines of text. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. A formal unsigned letter in the third person. Docketed on reverse, presumably by Hering: 'Fagel | Feb 20th/33'. The letter begins: 'I beg Mr. Hering will be so good as to have the enclosed half bound (the same fashion as the other books which have lately been done for me) lettered on the back Kaspar Hauser, and to contain the accompanying full length lithographic plate, so folded and arranged as to fit the volume as nearly as possible in the way that maps are bound up with the books to which they belong.' He asks for the volume to be sent 'with a copy also half bound of Eugene Aram, and of the narrative (if as I believe such a thing exist) upon which that work of fiction is founded'. The 'different articles' are to be given over to the charge of 'Mr. May'. The letter concludes: 'Does Mr. Hering happen to know whether Caspar Hauser (the subject of the German narrative) is now in England, and has any thing relative to him be [sic] published in England, in the Foreign Quarterly Review, or any other publication?' The Fagel library was acquired by Trinity College, Dublin, in 1802. For more information on Hering, see Judith Goldstein Marks, 'Bookbinding Practices of the Hering Family, 1799-1844' in the British Library Journal, 1980.