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GB 891 BHH-BHH/1-BHH/1/141
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Letter from Robert Caldwell to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 8 December 1862
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- 8th Dec 1862 (Creation)
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Letter from Robert Caldwell to Brian Houghton Hodgson to thank him for his articles on the Himalayan languages though he has not yet had leisure to study them as they deserve. Hodgson's note puts Caldwell as the author of the Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian languages and Honorary Member of the Royal Asiatic Society. Handwritten, 2 sides, dated 8 December 1862. With accompanying envelope on which Hodgson notes that Caldwell thinks the analyses were good.
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- English