Henry T. Colebrooke an August Wilhelm von SchlegelJochenStrobelPhilipps-Universität MarburgClaudiaBambergPhilipps-Universität MarburgRadoslavPetkovUniversität TrierOliviaVarwigPhilipps-Universität MarburgPhilipps-Universität MarburgSächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek DresdenKompetenzzentrum für elektronische Erschließungs- und Publikationsverfahren in den Geisteswissenschaften an der Universität Trier / Trier Center for Digital HumanitiesMitwirkendeClaudiaBambergHermioneCookOliviaVarwigJochenStrobelClaudiaBambergNamensnennung - Nicht-kommerziell - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 3.0 Deutschland (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DE)version-01-22Digitale Edition der Korrespondenz August Wilhelm SchlegelsNeu transkribiert und ausgezeichnet; zweimal kollationierthttps://august-wilhelm-schlegel.de/briefedigital/letters/view/4105Rocher, Rosane und Ludo Rocher: Founders of Western Indology. August Wilhelm von Schlegel and Henry Thomas Colebrooke in correspondence 1820–1837. Wiesbaden 2013, S. 33–34.Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und UniversitätsbibliothekMscr.Dresd.e.90,XIX,Bd.5,Nr.37DE-1a-33441DE-1a-1877860Mscr.Dresd.e.90,XIX,Bd.5,S.133-136ManuscriptOriginal3S. auf Doppelbl., hs. m. U. u. Adresse21,8 x 18,1 cmHenry T. ColebrookeHampstead1820-08-15August Wilhelm von SchlegelBonn

[1]Paginierung des Editors Hampstead15 Aug. 1820SirI beg you to accept my thanks for your letter and for the obliging terms in which you are pleased to express yourself concerning me as one of those who have laboured to lay open the road to Indian literature. It is matter of a congratulation that a person of your eminence and acquirements should devote time, which you can so well employ, to the cultivation of a branch of literature which does not here obtain the same degree of notice and attention which it gains in Germany. If I can be of any service to you, which you are so good as to suppose I may be, I beg you will freely command me, & without scruple. I shall have great pleasure in fur[2]Paginierung des Editorsnishing any information required, or answering any queries you may wish to have resolved, so far as may be in my power –As you speak of visiting England, I would recommend your doing so at the earliest convenient opportunity. The Collection of Indian manuscripts, & Sanscrit especially, in the library of the East India Company, is ample, & you would find the time, you may be able to spare, for the examination of them, very fruitfully employed. No catalogue of this collection has been printed.A catalogue of books & manuscripts in the British Museum, concerning which you inquire, exists: but the collection of Indian manuscripts there is very scanty. The Royal Society possesse’s the manuscripts collected by the late Sir William Jones. It is the only considerable collection open to the public, [3]Paginierung des Editors besides that which is at the East India HouseIf Mr Tho: Campbell is still at Bonn, may I trouble you to present my Compts to him. When I have the pleasure of seeing him, I shall offer my thanks to him for procuring me the gratification of your correspondenceI amSirwith great respectYour very obedient S[ervt]Textverlust durch BlattausrissH T ColebrookeÀ Monsieur A W de Schlegel[4]Paginierung des Editors A Monsieur A. W. de SchlegelProfesseur à BonnEtats Prussiens du Rhin