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Document number: 5908
Date: 17 Mar 1847
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: RUSSELL Henry
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Swallowfield. Reading.

March 17th 1847.

Sir

If you find fault with this letter, as an intrusion from a Stranger, I must plead, as my excuse, the interest and instruction which I have derived from your late work on Etymology. It has always been a favourite subject with me, particularly as it relates to Eastern languages, in the use of which a great part of my life has been passed. I have often regretted not to have put down such coincidences as have from time to time occurred to me; and, while I was reading your work, I did put down several; but my friend and former neighbour, Mr Milman, on whom I called to get your address, mentioned Bopp’s Comparative grammar, which I have since been reading, and which, as it gives not only most of the instances that I had noted, but a great many others that I had not, has consequently made them of no further use; but still, as there are some few that Bopp does not mention, I now take the liberty of sending them to you. If it amuses you as much to read, as it has me to write them, or rather to dictate, for, among other infirmities, I have nearly lost the power of using my pen, I shall be satisfied. At all events, if they are fit for nothing else, it will be something if your housemaid does but find the copy as useful in lighting your fires, as my own has already found the original in lighting ours.

I have the honor to be, Sir,

Your very faithful and obedient Servant

H. Russell.

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