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"Note to the Preeminence of the Vernaculars, The French Govt." Note concerning the French government's decision on taking measures for the general instruction of teachers as seen in "News from Paris", The Times, March 18, 1879. On reverse is a further note concerning the Austro- Hungarian government's decision on the value of mother tongue teaching as seen in the Times of November 1879. Handwritten, 1 piece, 1 sides, dated 1879.

Hodgson kept many newspaper cuttings both about his own life and about the subjects in which he was interested. Though some of these are located with other material, such as in the Autograph book (BHH/1), there are 119 loose cuttings within his Papers.

Copy of a letter to the Editor of the Delhi Gazette. Copy of a letter from "A Morfussillite" concerning his scorn for the use of vernacular education. Copy is in Hodgson's hand and he has added his opinion that, "This writer is evidently as bitter an opponent of the living as of the dead languages of the people..." Handwritten, 2 pieces, 6 sides, dated 12 January 1848.