Autograph Letter Signed from Lt-Col. Charles William Henry Sealy ('CWHS') to fellow-orientalist Sir Harry Charles Luke (as Lt-Commander H. C. Lukach), containing a family tree of the family of James Morier, author of 'Hajji Baba'.

12mo, 2 pp. Letter on one leaf and Morier family tree on another. Clear and complete. Seventeen-line letter and detailed family tree. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. With original envelope, with stamp and postmark, addressed by Sealy to 'Lieut-Commander H. C. Lukach RNVR | Chief Secretary's Office | TROODOS | Cyprus'. After a brief reference to the 'Morier stuff', most of the letter relates stamp collecting ('Salonikas' and 'Long Island overprinted on Turkish'). 'No job yet - but I worked at Admiralty yesterday to please a pal.' On the other leaf Sealy describes the Moriers as 'A Huguenot family migrated to Switzerland'. The tree begins with James Morier's father Isaac, and his maternal grandfather David Van Lennep, 'Dutch Consul general in Smyrna President of Dutch Levant Co'. At the foot is a list of seven works by James Morier, with dates.