Miscellaneous autograph letters from Sir William Jones, orientalist (1746-1794) to J. Miller and Samuel Parr (1747-1825), from Samuel Parr to William Roscoe (1753-1831) and from Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) to Richard Gough (1735-1809).
Jones, William, Sir, 1746-1794
Letters from Sir William Jones,
Six holograph letters from [Sir] W[illiam] Jones [jurist and orientalist] to ?Rich[ar]d Johnson, 1784-[1787] and undated (personal and domestic matters, points of Indian botanical interest, the writer's hymn to [the Hindu goddess] Sereswaty, his intention of composing eighteen such hymns [to various Hindu gods and goddesses] including Indra and Lacshmy, his 'Discourse on the Arabs' [delivered to the Bengal Asiatic Society, 1787]). Both the writer and recipient were resident in India.
Jones, William, Sir, 1746-1794
A group of holograph letters:- one from Jos[eph] Stennett (1663-1713; Seventh-Day Baptist) from London, to [his daughter-in-law?], 29 July, 1707; one from Jo[hn] Evans (c. 1680-1730; Congregational minister at Wrexham, etc.) from London, to ----, 28 August, [1]707; two from Jos[eph] Stennett (1692-1748; Baptist minister), the one from Exeter to [the Reverend] Thomas Holder, Leominster, 25 September, 1721 (the writer's ordination at Exeter), and the other from Fetter Lane [London] to Daniel Booth in Devonshire Square, 8 February, 1748/9; one from Samuel Stennett (1728-95; Baptist minister) from London, to the Reverend Benj[amin] Francis at Horsley, near Hampton, Gloucestershire, 9 August, 1768 (a 'call' to Goodman's Fields church, etc.); and eleven from [Sir] W[illiam] Jones (1746-94; orientalist) from Calcutta, etc., largely to Richard Johnson, 1773-90 and undated (the impeachment of Warren Hastings, etc.).