TARLETON BANASTRE Autograph Letter Signed to his booksellers

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TARLETON, BANASTRE. Autograph Letter Signed, to his booksellers, Messrs. Cadell & Davies, complaining about his inability to get an accounting for the sale of his book since "a silence on your part as unexpected as unsatisfactory has prevailed." 2 pages, 4to, with integral address leaf, written on the recto and verso of the first leaf; some bleed-through, postal stamps on terminal page. With the publisher's handwritten notation on the verso of the address leaf: "TC called Dec'r 23 upon the General and then delivered to him a statement of his Account with a Draft for the Balance." London, 19 December 1820

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Tarleton ( 1754-1833) was an officer in the British army during the Revolutionary War. As commander of the British Legion (later known as Tarleton's Raiders) he earned a reputation as an effective and brutal officer. His book, A History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781, was published by Cadell in 1787.
"I must acquaint you that I am desirous of some explanation relative to the Campaigns published at your house many years ago. Repeatedly I have written for a copy with a preface, but a silence on your part as unexpected as unsatisfactory has prevailed. A great many copies with the preface were printed and very few have caught my eye. I would therefore be glad of a general account from the beginning of our dealings accompanied with some explanation of the late proceedings."