• Henry T. Colebrooke to August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  • Place of Dispatch: London GND · Place of Destination: Bonn GND · Date: 18.04.1827
Edition Status: Newly transcribed and labelled; double collated
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  • Sender: Henry T. Colebrooke
  • Recipient: August Wilhelm von Schlegel
  • Place of Dispatch: London GND
  • Place of Destination: Bonn GND
  • Date: 18.04.1827
  • Notations: Empfangsort erschlossen.
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  • Bibliography: Rocher, Rosane und Ludo Rocher: Founders of Western Indology. August Wilhelm von Schlegel and Henry Thomas Colebrooke in correspondence 1820–1837. Wiesbaden 2013, S. 175–176.
  • Incipit: „[1] Argyll Street
    18 April 1827
    Dear Sir
    I have been truly glad to receive your long expected letter; & to learn that avocations [...]“
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  • Provider: Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek
  • OAI Id: DE-1a-33441
  • Classification Number: Mscr.Dresd.e.90,XIX,Bd.5,Nr.65
  • Number of Pages: 2S., hs. m. U.
  • Format: 22,9 x 18,5 cm
    Language
  • English
    Editors
  • Bamberg, Claudia
  • Müller, Bianca
  • Varwig, Olivia
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[1] Argyll Street
18 April 1827
Dear Sir
I have been truly glad to receive your long expected letter; & to learn that avocations chiefly have been the cause of my not hearing sooner from you. The balance of account will be paid into the hands of Casenove forthwith, to your Credit.
I do not doubt that the works which you mention will be very interesting & I shall look with some degree of impatience to see them. The terminating fasciculus of the 1st vol. of Transactions of the R. Asiatic Society will be out in a week or two; when I shall have the pleasure of forwarding it to you. It contains two essays of mine on Indian Philosophy. My concluding essay (the subject of which is the Védánta) is now in course of reading at the Societyʼs meetings
My health, I am sorry to say, continues [2] very precarious. It is not so bad as it was; but has left me an altered man. I have not strength for any undertaking. I write unwillingly & study reluctantly. Whether I may be able to commence again my work de longue haleine, I much doubt. I will not, however despair of what the Summer may do for me.
My son is writing to you; & I will therefore say little on his part – He is diligently engaged in his law-studies; takes cordially to his profession; & in every respect gives me great Satisfaction. I feel every day more & more how much I owe to you for your attention to him while he was under your superintendence
Yours very Sincly
HColebrooke
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[1] Argyll Street
18 April 1827
Dear Sir
I have been truly glad to receive your long expected letter; & to learn that avocations chiefly have been the cause of my not hearing sooner from you. The balance of account will be paid into the hands of Casenove forthwith, to your Credit.
I do not doubt that the works which you mention will be very interesting & I shall look with some degree of impatience to see them. The terminating fasciculus of the 1st vol. of Transactions of the R. Asiatic Society will be out in a week or two; when I shall have the pleasure of forwarding it to you. It contains two essays of mine on Indian Philosophy. My concluding essay (the subject of which is the Védánta) is now in course of reading at the Societyʼs meetings
My health, I am sorry to say, continues [2] very precarious. It is not so bad as it was; but has left me an altered man. I have not strength for any undertaking. I write unwillingly & study reluctantly. Whether I may be able to commence again my work de longue haleine, I much doubt. I will not, however despair of what the Summer may do for me.
My son is writing to you; & I will therefore say little on his part – He is diligently engaged in his law-studies; takes cordially to his profession; & in every respect gives me great Satisfaction. I feel every day more & more how much I owe to you for your attention to him while he was under your superintendence
Yours very Sincly
HColebrooke
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