SWETE

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Autograph Letter Signed ('H B Swete') by the English biblical scholar Henry Barclay Swete, giving detailed advice 'to an intending fellow traveller in the Holy Land', with a description of his 'own route'.

Publication details: 
On letterhead of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. 2 February 1873.
£280.00

4pp., 12mo. On two bifoliums. Good, on lightly-aged paper. To an unknown recipient. The letter begins: 'Dear Sir | I shall be glad to be of any service to an intending fellow traveller in the Holy Land.' In eight numbered paragraphs, discussing: dragomans ('I was fortunate enough to secure a trustworthy native servant at Jaffa, who had all the knowledge & experience of a dragoman, without the insolence & extravagance which is common to the class. His name was Abdullah of Bethlehem. [...] He charged me on an average £1.

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