Mio Signore
Ci replico una seconda lettera giacché non posso più ritirare la prima che già fu portata alla Posta. Scrivo questa per dirle, posto che il tempo il permetta, che questa mattina col Sig. Maestro di lingua che mi favorì d’interprete ho visitati diversi appartamenti e tra i più convenienti ne trovai uno che giudicarei molto a proposito di tutti. Prima perché è il prezzo il più discreto, l’altro che oltro l’essere adattissimo per ogni rapporto unisce anche il commodo ed il risparmio del trasporto essendo precisamente in faccia alla Casa del Sig. Feilding. <1> Esso è composto di una sala, una camera da letto ed un gabinetto per Lei tutti ad un piano ed una sopra per me. Compreso quanto occorre di biancheria effetti il prezzo è di 2 lire e ½ per settimana. Io ho preso tempo fino a mercoledì per riscontrarla fissatamente nel qual tempo ella si compiacerà di dirmi cosa debba fare. Ho pure veduto qualche albergo in Bond Street ed il più a buon prezzo è il migliore di quanti ne vidi ed ammonterebbe tutto compreso a 9 scellini il giorno. V.S. poi scelga a suo talento ed in attenzione di una pronta risposta ho l’onore di riverirla rispettosamente.
Londra
1o 1824
di V.S. Ill.ma Umil.mo ed Obb.mo Servo
Gio Percy
Translation:
My Lord
I reply with a second letter since the first one has already been taken to the Post Office and I can no longer get it back. I write this one in order to inform you that, since time permitted, I visited several apartments this morning with the Languages Master, who favours me as an interpreter and that, among the most convenient, I found one which I would consider suitable in every regard. Firstly because the price is most reasonable, and furthermore as well as being appropriate in every respect, it also unites convenience and savings in transport since it is exactly opposite Mr Feilding’s house. It comprises a living room, a bedroom and a lavatory for you, all on one floor, and above for me. Including whatever may be needed in the way of linen the price stands at 2 ½ pounds per week. I have taken until Wednesday to inspect it completely by which time I would be grateful if you would tell me what I should do. I have also seen some hotels in Bond Street and the least expensive was also the best and amounts, all inclusive, to 9 shillings a day. Your Lordship will choose according to his needs and, awaiting a swift response, I am honoured to offer you my deepest respect.
London
1st 1824
Your Most Illustrious Lordship’s Most Humble and Obedient Servant
Gio Percy
[Enclosure:]
Books left at Genoa 53 vols.
Allioni 3 Vols –
idem Auctarium ad florum Pedmontiarum <2>
idem Rariorum Specimen primum
Swiss Scenery <3>
Callet’s Logarithms <4>
Desfontaines 2 Vols <5>
Pollini <6>
Maratti <7>
Aristophanes 4 vols <8>
Is. Vossices
Justus Lipsius <9>
Grabe Spicileguiem Satrum 2 Vols <10>
Appollonius Rhodius <11>
| Æschylus <12> Sophocles Horace |
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Received Right <13> in London |
| H.T. July 1825 |
Daubuz pro Testimonio Josephi <14>
Usserius de LXX <15>
3 lists of Greek words
Allix de anno J.C. <16>
Bayley’s Heb. Grammar <17>
German Bible
Il perdons di Assisi
Lettere familiari
Encyclopedia grammaticale
Hononymes françois
Taschenbuch für Reisende <18>
Novelle di Loave
| Philo et Virgilii Interpretes <19> | |
| Liber Sybillinus <20> – |
Savi, Botanicum Etruscum 2 Vols <21>
Risso, Crustacés <22>
Kotzebue’s Stranger <23>
7 Nos of Bibliotheque Universelle <24>
Fontenelle Eloges, 2 Vols <25>
Fleury, Moeurs des Israëlites. <26>
Camera Lucida <27>
Large flower press
Theodolite stand <28>
Books for England, Oct. 11. 1823
56 Vols
Amici’s <29> Microscope
Dollands <30> Opera Glass
Schmalcalder <31>’s do
Camera Obscura <32>
Ruler by Ramsden <33>
Telescope
Model of Tunnel
– of Sector?
Theodolite <34> & 2 1 stand s
2 Umbrellas
Large flower press
do small
secretaire
Red do small ?
dark green do ?
Portfolio A for pavia
B. Mon–Hex, and Syng–Crypt.
E. Oct–Polyadelph–
C, D miscellaneous (cannot find C) ?
books of flowers, 1 to [illegible]
[illegible deletion] (all right)
Delessert <35> (contains the Botzen &c.)
Vossius Idololatria <36>
Map of Italy
Clasp Book
Merkerchus
Persoon 2 vols ? <37>
Gresset 1 vol ?
9 nos of Gergonne <38>
Italian Dicty
German do
Bossuet <39> 2 vols ?
Bible
Mauri <40>
Supplt to do
Tenore’s Catalogue <41>
Zodiac of Denderah <42>
Josephus
Conn. des Temps 1823
Berlin Jahrbuch <43>
6 Nos of Zach <44>
3 tracts on Lunars
Thermometer.
Loiseleur ?
Bellezze di Paesia
Panorama of Milan
Those marked ? are missing. July 1825 <45>
Notes:
1. Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780–1837), Royal Navy; WHFT’s step-father.
2. Carlo Allioni (1725–1804), Flora Pedemontana… (Turin: J. M. Briolus, 1785). And Rariorum pedemontii stirpium. Specimen primum (Turin: Zappata and Avondus, 1755).
3. Possibly James Pattison Cockburn, Swiss Scenery from Drawings by Major Cockburn (London: Rodwell & Martin, 1820).
4. Jean-Francois Callet, Tables Portatives des Logarithmes (Paris: Didot, 1795).
5. René Louiche Desfontaines (1850/1852–1833), longtime director of Jardin des Plantes in Paris; his most important publication was Flora Atlantica… (Paris: 1798–1799), 2 vols, with illustrations by Pierre-Joseph Redouté. [See Doc. No: 01075].
6. Ciro Pollini (1782–1833), author of Flora Veronensis quam in prodromum Floræ Italiæ septentrionalis exhibet C. Pollini. Cum tabulis æneis (Verona: 1822–1824). [See Doc. No: 00332].
7. Giovanni Francesco Maratti (d. 1777), botanist. Published, among other works, a Flora Romana (Rome: Joseph Salviucci, 1822).
8. Aristophanes (448?–385? BC), writer of comedies.
9. Justus Lipsius (1547–1606). Probably Epistolarum selectarum chilias… (Geneva: 1609).
10. John Ernest Grabe (1666–1711), edited and published the Old Testament while Chaplain at Christ Church, Oxford (1707–1720); J.E. Grabe, editor, Spicilegium SS. patrum, ut et haereticorum, seculi post Christum natum I. II. & III. Quorum vel integra monumenta, vel fragmenta … (Oxford: John Owen, 1700), 2nd ed.
11. Appollonius Rhodius (3rd century BC), epic poet of Alexandria and Rhodes, also librarian at Alexandria and writer of the Argonautica.
12. Sophocles (496?–406 BC); Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65–8 BC), lyric poet of Augustus’ Rome.
13. Written in WHFT’s hand. [See Doc. No: 01281].
14. Charles Daubuz (1673–1717), Pro testimonio Flavii Josephi de Jesu Christo … (London: 1706).
15. James Ussher (1581–1656), Archbishop of Armagh, De Græca Septuaginta Interpretum Versione Syntagma (1655). [See Doc. No: 01281].
16. Pierre Allix (1641–1717), Petri Allix Diatriba de Anno Mense Natalie J.C. (London: 1722).
17. C. Bayley (1751–1812), An entrance into the sacred language: containing the necessary rules of Hebrew grammar in English… (London: 1783).
18. Pocketbook for travelers.
19. Angelo Mai, editor (1752–1854), Virgilii Maronis interpretes veters…. Issued together with Judaeus Philo, Philonis Judaei De cophini festo… (Milano: Regiis typis, 1818).
20. An interpretation of the Sibylline Books, which were oracular scrolls written by prophetic priestesses (the Sibylls) in the Etruscan and early Roman Era.
21. Gaetano Savi (1769–1844). The work was probably his Lezioni di botanica… (Florence: Presso Molini, 1811).
22. A. Risso, Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés des Environs de Nice (Paris: 1816).
23. August von Kotzebue (1761–1819), The stranger, or, Misanthropy and repentance: a drama in five acts / faithfully translated, entire, from the German of Augustus von Kotzebue by George Papendick (London: 1798).
24. Collin de Plancey, Jacques Auguste Simon, Dictionnaire inferant, ou biblioteque universelle (Paris: 1825–1826).
25. See Doc. No: 03782.
26. Possibly Claude Fleury (1640–1723), Les moeurs des Israëlites (Bruxelles: 1722).
27. Bernard Le Bovier, Marquis de Fontenelle (1657–1757), French writer; nephew of Corneille, secretary of the Académie royale des Sciences. Choir d’eloges de savant (Paris: 1767).
28. Basic surveying instrument of unknown origin going back to the 16th c. English mathematician Leonard Digges, used to measure horizontal and vertical angles.
29. Prof Giovanni Battista Amici (1786–1868), Italian optician & man of science.
30. George Dolland (1774–1852), optical instrument maker, member of the Royal Society of London.
31. Charles Augustus Schmalcalder (1781–1843), mathematical instrument maker; WHFT owned a surveying instrument, that he called a ‘patent theodolite’, designed after Schmalcalder’s patent of 1812.
32. See Doc. No: 03782.
33. Jesse Ramsden (1735–1800), designer and manufacturer of mathematical and astronomical instruments.
34. Circular dividing engine used by cartographers, invented by Leonard Diggs in 1571 and perfected by Jesse Ramsden in 1775.
35. Probably Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert (1773–1847), banker, entrepreneur, keen botanist and conchologist; also co-founder of the “Société Héliographique” and uncle to the photographer Edouard Delessert.
36. Probably Isaak Vossius (1616–1689) and Dionysius Vossius (1612–1633), Mosis Maimonidae de idololatria liber cum interpretatione Latine, & notis (Amsterdam: Ioh. & Cornelius Blaeu 1642).
37. Christian Hendrik Persoon (1755–1837), botanist. [See Doc. No: 01198].
38. Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771–1859), established his own mathematics journal, the first part appearing in 1810, officially called Annales de mathématiques pures et appliquées but became known as Annales de Gergonne (Paris: 1810–1832).
39. Jacques Bossuet (1627–1704), theologian, court preacher and writer.
40. Possibly Ernesto Mauri (1791–1836) and Antonio Sebastiani, Floræ romanæ prodromus… (Rome: V. Poggioli, 1818).
41. Probably Michele Tenore (1780–1861), Catalogo della collezione agraria del real giardino delle piante (Napoli: Tip. A. Trani, 1815).
42. In 1799 the Rosetta Stone was found in Denderah, Egypt, the inscriptions on the stone (zodiac of Denderah) made interpretations of the hieroglyphs possible by its bilingual record in hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek characters.
43. Berlin Yearbook.
44. Franz Xaver Freiherr von Zach (1754–1832), Correspondance astronomique, géographique, hydrographique et statistique du Baron de Zach, periodical (Genoa: A. Ponthenier, 1818–1826). [See Doc. No: 01172].
45. Written in WHFT’s hand.