File BHH/1/185 - Letter from Léon Feer, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 4 December 1883

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Letter from Léon Feer, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 4 December 1883

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Letter from Léon Feer, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, to Brian Houghton Hodgson to acknowledge the sending of copies of the pamphlet containing a detailed account of Hodgson's official and other services. He praises Hodgson's contributions in the field of scientific knowledge; and gives information about the deposit of the pamphlet in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and the Buddhist manuscripts sent earlier by Hodgson, now in the library of the Société Asiatique, Paris. Hodgson's title note with date of receipt is on the accompanying envelope. Letter, handwritten in French, 3 sides, dated 4 December 1883.

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