1-272-970 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Letter from David Hume to Richard Davenport, 8th July 1766. Letter written from London by David Hume to Richard Davenport, with reference to a proposal to obtain a pension from the English Government for Jean-Jaques Rousseau, and on the ingratitude and aminosity of Rousseau towards him. From the third series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I-V, (London, 1899).