ALS signed “T. Rob't Malthus,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.25 x 8.75, February 8, 1806. Exceptional handwritten letter to William Roscoe, in part: “Allow me to thank you for your valuable present which I have read with great pleasure and satisfaction. I have always been inclined to agree with you respecting the practicability of peace, and your arguments have tended to confirm me in that opinion. Yet at times I must own that doubts cross my mind, particularly since I have had the pleasure of being acquainted with your friend Hamilton, who has always been of opinion, from the conversation he heard at Paris, that Bonaparte had no serious intentions of making peace at the time of the last negotiation. I am sensible however that in a government such as that of France, no reliance can be placed on what is heard in conversation, and I’ve no harm at all events, in having an ambassador at Paris, to show our readiness to accede to reasonable terms. In your reprobation of the Copenhagen expedition and the new morality on which it was founded I agree with you most heartily, and think that the forcible expressions which you have used are all most justly merited.” In fine condition.
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