Autograph Letter Signed ('Max Müller') from Professor Max Muller, sending condolences to John Bellows on the death of his mother, and discussing the success of Bellows' French dictionary, Bishop Patteson, Jowett and Dr Stanley.

2pp., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Bellows is not named, being addressed as 'My dear Friend', but the letter is from his papers. Müller writes that he feels 'every word' Bellows has to say about his mother: 'all we can say is that it was meant to be so'. He has been 'reading the Life of Patteson, the Bishop of Melanesia - an old friend of mine, and I suppose the best man I ever knew.' He laments that the book is 'very long, and will not be read by many people - but those who read it will value it for life'. He finds Bellows's dictionary 'quite bewitching - two copies were carried off to day [sic]' by Stanley (who is going to St. Petersburg to marry the Duke of Edinburgh) and by Jowett.' He wishes there was 'a German Dictionary of the same kind'. 'Dr Stanley told me he had dined at the French Embassy, and all the people there had talked of the French Dictionary.' He is sending Bellows a cheque for £2 12s 6d.