Author:
Professor Friedrich Max Müller [Max Muller] (1823-1900), Sanskrit philologist [John Thomas Bellows (1831-1902), Quaker printer and lexicographer, author of first pocket French/English dictionary]
Publication details:
On his letterhead, Parks End, Oxford. 17 November 1873.
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'.
