I received your request to apply immediately to the Literary Fund, on Saturday the 7th instant, & on Monday the 9th I wrote to the Society by the earliest post in the morning, & left it to you, by letter, to corroborate my statement by written Certificate.
I did not apply in May last because such Certificate was declined by Mr Condor.2
My present application has no "error" in it, but will be inefficient unless corroborated by Testimonials. — See Mr Blewitt's letter to me,3 which please to return at your leisure.
I enclose from Mr Woollaston, surgeon, here a Certificate as to health & infirmity
But the two Certifcates, required by the Rules, as to my pecuniary difficulties (vide Rule 2), with recommendations (vide Rule 4) from gentlemen having personal knowledge of my moral character & distressed circumstances I must have still to be supplied by your acitivity.
Mr Rodd & Mr. J. P. Collyer,4 each well knows the other, can certify & recommend accordingly — Their Certificates should be separate, &c. apparently without concert.
Observe, my dear Sir, Pray observe, literally what I have written & am about to write.
Without these things are done, my application will be wholly inefficient.
The Rules must be complied with (Vide Mr Blewitt's letter) of Mr Duncan's Zeal I have no doubt, but he cannot contravene the Rules.
Enclosed are many suggestions for the Advertisement in the "Patriot."