• Henry T. Colebrooke to August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  • Place of Dispatch: London GND · Place of Destination: Bonn GND · Date: 10.02.1825
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: 10.02.1825
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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. 127–129.
  • Incipit: „[1] Argyll Street
    10t Feby 1825
    My dear Sir
    I have had the satisfaction to receive your letters of 20th & 30th Ulto and [...]“
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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.59
  • Number of Pages: 3S. auf Doppelbl., hs. m. U. m. Adresse
  • Format: 22,7 x 18,6 cm
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  • English
    Editors
  • Bamberg, Claudia
  • Müller, Bianca
  • Varwig, Olivia
[1] Argyll Street
10t Feby 1825
My dear Sir
I have had the satisfaction to receive your letters of 20th & 30th Ulto and thank you for the particulars you are so good as to communicate to me concerning my son. I am glad to receive so good an account of him, in regard to his health, conduct, and attention to his studies. I beg you to accept my sincere acknowledgements of your kind care of him
When I spoke of three years as the period I proposed that he should allot to collegiate Studies at your university, I entertained that he might enter upon them earlier than has been practicable. Not but that he is now prosecuting what would be here considered to be collegiate studies, for our public schools do not teach mathematics but leave this science for a later task. But I shall wish him to go through a complete course of jurisprudence, if [2] possible: and I hope he may by & by be easily reconciled to that prolongation of his stay abroad. At present in all his letters he describes himself as very happy where he is
I do not wonder at the disparaging terms in which you speak of our most eminent public schools. I am very dissatisfied with their waste of most valuable time They teach little in much time: and that at the most valuable period of the young students life.
I can cordially sympathize with you on the interruptions of multiplied avocations. Calls of business have increased on me so much that I have been obliged to lay aside my task for a while; & I know not when I shall be able to take it up again. My treatise on the Mímánsá is unfinished: and I fear I must narrow my design in regard to the Védas &c.
Mr Lassen will have informed you that we go on well in the Asiatic Society. We have a second fasciculus in the press – I am sorry to learn from you that we are to lose him so soon. I wish we had a few young Englishmen applying themselves to oriental studies with similar ardour.
I thank you for the account which [3] you are so good as to furnish to me. I observe from it, that I am debtor to you for a balance exceeding 10£. I beg you will draw on me for the amount in the usual manner
Yours very Sincly
HColebrooke
[4] A Monsieur
Monsieur AW De Schlegel
à Bonn
Sur le Rhin
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[1] Argyll Street
10t Feby 1825
My dear Sir
I have had the satisfaction to receive your letters of 20th & 30th Ulto and thank you for the particulars you are so good as to communicate to me concerning my son. I am glad to receive so good an account of him, in regard to his health, conduct, and attention to his studies. I beg you to accept my sincere acknowledgements of your kind care of him
When I spoke of three years as the period I proposed that he should allot to collegiate Studies at your university, I entertained that he might enter upon them earlier than has been practicable. Not but that he is now prosecuting what would be here considered to be collegiate studies, for our public schools do not teach mathematics but leave this science for a later task. But I shall wish him to go through a complete course of jurisprudence, if [2] possible: and I hope he may by & by be easily reconciled to that prolongation of his stay abroad. At present in all his letters he describes himself as very happy where he is
I do not wonder at the disparaging terms in which you speak of our most eminent public schools. I am very dissatisfied with their waste of most valuable time They teach little in much time: and that at the most valuable period of the young students life.
I can cordially sympathize with you on the interruptions of multiplied avocations. Calls of business have increased on me so much that I have been obliged to lay aside my task for a while; & I know not when I shall be able to take it up again. My treatise on the Mímánsá is unfinished: and I fear I must narrow my design in regard to the Védas &c.
Mr Lassen will have informed you that we go on well in the Asiatic Society. We have a second fasciculus in the press – I am sorry to learn from you that we are to lose him so soon. I wish we had a few young Englishmen applying themselves to oriental studies with similar ardour.
I thank you for the account which [3] you are so good as to furnish to me. I observe from it, that I am debtor to you for a balance exceeding 10£. I beg you will draw on me for the amount in the usual manner
Yours very Sincly
HColebrooke
[4] A Monsieur
Monsieur AW De Schlegel
à Bonn
Sur le Rhin
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