Box Coll-2106 - Box 2

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Ernst Osiander (1929-1864), orientalist, Autograph Letter Signed, 1854.

1 letter: 20 January [1854]. Osiander acknowledges that he is already late in returning a manuscript that the library has lent him, and asks to keep it for another quarter of a year.

Notes by Alfred Stumpff: Short biographical information, purchase information

Transcription included in the file? No.

Scope and Contents William Ouseley (1767-1842), orientalist, Autograph Letter Signed, 1801.1 Letter. - 11 March 1801, London. A letter to Gen. Vallancy, sent to Dublin. Ouseley first tells an anecdote in which a speaker of Bengali is able to understand Irish due to their linguistic 'resemblance'. He then speaks about rearrangements that have been happening in government which he is not pleased with. Finally, he copies an inscription found on bricks from ancient Babylon. ...

Scope and Contents Théodore Pavie (1811-1896), orientalist and traveller, Autograph Letter Signed 1852, to his father Louis.1 Letter - 2 February 1852, Paris. Letter to Pavie's father, Louis Pavie in Angers. He writes to let him know that he has returned to Paris. He gives news of several people, including his teacher Burnouf and describes an inspiring visit to the Louvre. He recounts his journey from Leuven and Brussels and asks his father to send him all his Hindi and Sanskrit books. ...

Scope and Contents Paul Pelliot (1878-1945), orientalist, 2 Autograph Letters Signed, 1908 + 1937.2 Letters - Letter 1: 24 August 1908. A letter to a friend. Pelliot asks if the recipient is still in the Office de Conseil General in Shanghai. He describes his journey home from his Central Asian expedition and his happiness to have returned to France. - Letter 2: 2 December 1937, Paris. Pelliot writes to a friend about the election of a new chair of Experimental Biology at the College de...

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Julius Heinrich Petermann (1801-1876), orientalist and traveller, Autograph Letter Signed, 1824 + ADS 1846.

1 poem, 1 academic reference, 1 copy of Petermann's Curriculum Vitae copied from his dissertation. Poem: dedicated to Petermann's parents. Reference: 1846, for Sal. Rosenheim.

Notes by Alfred Stumpff: Many short biographies of Petermann from encyclopaedias. Purchase information.

Transcription included in the file? No.

Scope and Contents Heinrich Plütschau (1676-1747), theologian, missionary, Autograph Quotation Signed in Hindi, 1713.1 entry from a "Stammbuch" (friendship book). 1 translation of the Tamil from the Stammbuch entry. Stammbuch entry: Tamil inscription about prayer. Translation: original, modern spelling, transliteration, and analysis. Notes by Alfred Stumpff: Short biographical information, physical description of the Stammbuch entry, purchase information, notes on...

Scope and Contents Friedrich August Pott (1802-1887), Indologist, Autograph Letter Signed 1861.1 envelope, 1 letter. Letter 1: 11 July 1861. Pott discusses the funding for the expedition undertaken by Hn. V. Beurmann to inner Africa. He has not been as successful in raising funds as he wished, due to negative gossip about him among his colleagues. He sends 75 Reichstaler. Notes by Alfred Stumpff: Short biographical information, physical description of the letter and...

Scope and Contents Eugen Prym (1843-1913), orientalist, Arabist, 4 Autograph Letters Signed 1867-1868, addenda.8 letters, 8 envelopes.- Letter 1: 18 June 1926. From Anna Prym to her grandmother. She tells her grandmother about her time at St. Mary's Abbey school in London, England. She tells her grandmother about school, birthdays, and going to the theatre.- Letter 2: 3 February 1892. James Thomson sends a book "Land o' Burns" and writes some notes on Scottish spellings and...

Scope and Contents Henry Rawlinson (1810-1895), decipherer of cuneiform, Autograph Letter Signed.1 Letter - No date given. Addressed to 'Mr Hall', Rawlinson writes that Menant's grammatical work (referring to Joachim Menant, who worked on the Assyrian palace library) is not very valuable, but should still be kept in the Athenaeum Club Library alongside 'Elements d'Epigraphie Assyrienne'. Notes by Alfred Stumpff: Short typed note of purchase information and summary of...

Scope and Contents Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788-1832), linguist, sinologist, Autograph Letter Signed, 1824?.1 Letter - 28 February 1819, 1824 or 1830. Letter to Mr Schellings. Remusat gives Schellings an Indian manuscript and advises him to contact Eugene Burnouf, an expert in Tamil, because he believes the manuscript to be written in Tamil. Notes by Alfred Stumpff: 5 pages of typed notes about Remusat and Schellings. Stumpff elaborates his process for identifying...