Wilberforce (William)

Autograph letter signed ('W. Wilberforce') to his friend Robert Humphrey Marten, reading "I am ashamed that, from accidental hindrances there should be any delay in my replying to a friend who is so kindly attending to a concern on my application. I thank you cordially for the pains you have taken to obtain a berth for my young protege...We all know but too well the temptations to which young men in London must be subject and prey when they have nothing to do. I can truly say it would, on that account as well as on others, be a great relief to me to hear that you had succeeded in your kind endeavour to procure him any situation afloat", three pages, last page affixed onto album page, small loss due to wax seal removal, folding marks, 4to, Missenden, 18 July 1837.