INGLIS (Sir Robert Harry, 1786-1855, M.P. for Oxford University, F.R.S., 2nd Bart.)

Autograph Letter Signed to  James Justinian MORIER , c.1780-1849, thanking him "as another evidence" of his kindness and friendship for "the work , which you have been so good as to send to me, even before I open a page of it. When I have read it, it will ... have, like Hajji Baba and Zohrab, another & distinct, because internal, value superadded", with an old collector's note lightly tipped in to blank third side, 1 side 8vo, Manchester Buildings, Westminster, 2nd June light traces of laying down by corners of blank fourth side

Morier, born in Smyrna, joined the diplomatic service in Persia in 1807. 'Hajji Baba', 1824, is his best novel.

Item Date:  1834

Stock No:  17456      £45

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