Item BHH/5/24/3 - Letter from James Summers to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 17 October 1870

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GB 891 BHH-BHH/5-BHH/5/24-BHH/5/24/3

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Letter from James Summers to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 17 October 1870

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  • 17th Oct 1870 (Creation)

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Summers James Reverend Editor of Phoenix Magazine

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Letter from James Summers to Brian Houghton Hodgson in which he writes further concerning the publication of the Papers on Buddhism. He asks Hodgson to send the money so he can purchase some Sanskrit type and for him to make any alterations that he requires. Summers sends a work on Chinese poetry for Hodgson. Handwritten, 4 sides, dated 17 October 1870. With accompanying envelope with Hodgson's annotations.

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