The autograph letter is dated, Stirling, Scotland, March 16th 1800. It is a single sheet, 195mm x 205mm.
Addressing his letter to Messrs Bell & Bradfute, Booksellers, Edinburgh, Gleig asks that, with respect to the Anti Jacobin Review the: 'Gentlemen [...] give to John Macfarquhar esq. the first four volumes of that work [...] and state them against the proprietor...'.