Item BHH/9/2/1 - Draft letters from Brian Houghton Hodgson to the Editor of the Friend of India, December [1847]

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GB 891 BHH-BHH/9-BHH/9/2-BHH/9/2/1

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Draft letters from Brian Houghton Hodgson to the Editor of the Friend of India, December [1847]

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Drafts of a letter from Brian Houghton Hodgson to the Editor of the Friend of India concerning his views on vernacular educations. Two different rough drafts in which Hodgson writes that since the Editor had recently noticed Hodgson's new edition of letters on education he takes leave to write and lay out his reasoning for teaching the Indian people in their own languages. Each handwritten, 2 pieces, 8 sides, dated 4 December [1847].

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