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Autograph Letter Signed, relieved about his correspondent’s health, still engaged in “the great charge” his correspondent entrusted to him. 1 page 9 x 7 inches, torn at two blank corners. and in one margin, otherwise good. 3 Martlett Court, undated. “The Little Devil I have not as yet touched.” Thomas Milton (1743-1827), engraver. In 1783 appeared the first number of his Views of Seats in Ireland, a series of twenty-four plates from drawings by William Ashford, John James Barralet, Francis Wheatley, and others; this work, which made Milton’s reputation, was completed in 1793. From then on he seems to have relied on commissions from publishers. His other major plate was The Deluge, engraved for Thomas Macklin’s Bible from a picture by Philip James de Loutherbourg. His work occurs also in John Boydell’s, George Kearsley’s, and George Steevens’s editions of Shakespeare, and William Young Ottley’s Stafford Gallery 1818. In 1801 appeared Views in Egypt, a series of coloured aquatints; the subtitle clarifies that it was from original drawings in owned by Sir Robert Ainslie, taken during his embassy to Constantinople by Luigi Mayer, engraved by and under Milton.