Autograph Letter by Rogers to Peel, in the third person, jokingly-docketed by Peel in autograph.

16mo (leaf dimensions 11 x 9 cm), 2 pp. Bifolium. Reverse of second leaf addressed by Rogers 'For the Rt. Honl. Sir Robert Peel.' Text clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged and creased paper, with a couple of spots of glue on second leaf from previous mounting on second leaf. Rogers writes 'to point out to Sir Robert Peel a slight inaccuracy in the printed forms respecting the Income Tax' ('middle of the third page of Schedule D'): the words 'sitting up' instead of 'setting up'. Rogers 'thought it best to send this correction to the fountain-head, in order that the oversight might be corrected in future copies.' Peel has docketed the second leaf: 'Sir Geo Clerk to sit it right' (with 'sit' underlined). Peel's Income Tax Act 1842 (5 & 6 Vict c. 35) re-introduced an income tax in Britain, at the rate of 7 pence in the pound on all annual incomes greater than £150.