Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed correspondent by the bluestocking Mrs Elizabeth Carter ('Eliz: Carter'). Together with stipple engraving by Mackenzie of 'Mrs. Carter'.

Letter: 8vo, 1 p. Twelve lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper, with slight damage at foot of page, and strip from previous mount adhering to blank reverse. Addressed to 'Dear Sir'. As she does not hold her correspondent responsible for the 'accident' no compensation is necessary, and she cannot accept 'the valuable volume [...] under any such principle'. She will however 'receive it with gratitude as a Token' of his good opinion and proof of his 'partial Remembrance of the many hours' which she passed with him and 'that dear & amiable Friend whose Loss we had so much Reason to regret, & for whose memory we must ever retain so tender a Regard'. Docketed at foot in a contemporary hand 'Translator of Epictetus &c'. Engraving: 12.5 x 8 cm. Laid down on piece of paper. Bust of Carter, in bonnet, looking to her right. Fair, on spotted paper. Not listed as present in the National Portrait Gallery (it is not NPG D13793, another engraving 'by Mackenzie, after Joachim Smith', published in 1807).