Nathaniel Brassey Halhed manuscript material

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{"value"=>"Halhed, Nathaniel Brassey, 1751-1830", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"Nathaniel Brassey Halhed manuscript material"}

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{"value"=>"ca. 1793-1795?", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1793/1795", "certainty"=>"questionable"}

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{"value"=>"<p>· To Thomas Maurice, oriental scholar and librarian : 2 autograph letters signed : -- 26 Feb [no year] : (MISC 0271) : on some sensitive issue; including, \"I am as impatient under [ceremony] as a Monkey in harness.\" -- 10 May [no year] : (MISC 0272) : replying to a letter \"which conveys to my mind some, & perhaps not a few[,] uncomfortable sensations.\" Both letters discuss the bookseller Robert Faulder, who published works of Halhed's in 1793 and 1795. Both letters also bear a few annotations in another contemporary hand, perhaps that of Maurice.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

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{"value"=>"<p>Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, English orientalist. Halhed's translation from Sanskrit of an ancient Hindu law code was published in 1776; his English grammar of Bengali in 1778.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

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1793

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1793

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1795

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1793

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1795

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2 items

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{"value"=>"Nathaniel Brassey Halhed manuscript material : 2 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, English orientalist. Halhed's translation from Sanskrit of an ancient Hindu law code was published in 1776; his English grammar of Bengali in 1778. &#xB7; To Thomas Maurice, oriental scholar and librarian : 2 autograph letters signed : -- 26 Feb [no year] : (MISC 0271) : on some sensitive issue; including, \"I am as impatient under [ceremony] as a Monkey in harness.\" -- 10 May [no year] : (MISC 0272) : replying to a letter \"which conveys to my mind some, perhaps not a few[,] uncomfortable sensations.\" Both letters discuss the bookseller Robert Faulder, who published works of Halhed's in 1793 and 1795. Both letters also bear a few annotations in another contemporary hand, perhaps that of Maurice.", "generated"=>true}

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