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Autograph Letter Signed, to a bookseller, discussing in detail the content of a prospectus, probably for his biography of Robert Hall, suggesting amendments. 4 pp. 6 x 4 inches, in good condition, minor blemishes only. Undated. One paragraph “Should then be: This is not the place or the time to expatiate upon the peculiarities of Mr. Hall’s mind, his love of truth, especially of Scriptural truth, …” Olinthus Gilbert Gregory (1774-1841), mathematician, author of text books on mathematics, mechanics and astronomy. Gregory’s books included Hints for the Use of Teachers of Elementary Mathematics (1840, new edition 1853), and Mathematics for Practical Men (1825), which was revised and enlarged by Henry Law in 1848, and again by J. R. Young in 1862. His Letters on the Evidences of Christianity (1815) have been several times reprinted, and an abridgment was published by the Religious Tract Society in 1853. He will probably be longest remembered for his Biography of Robert Hall, which first appeared in the collected edition of Hall’s works, was published separately in 1833, and has since passed through several editions.