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Autograph Letter Signed, to Mr Burke, interceding on behalf of Mr Haydn, the author of the Dictionary of Dates and The Book of Dignities, now “almost wholly without employment”, adding a recommendation from Sheridan knowles, currently “baptising the full grown natives of the Isle of Bute”. 3 pp. 9 x 7 inches, fine. 12 Loudoun Villas, St John’s Wood, 12 October 1853. Alaric Alexander Watts (1797-1864), journalist and poet, founded the United Services Gazette (1833) and the annual Literary Souvenir (1824-1837), and published two volumes of poetry.