Description
Autograph Poem, signed ‘John Bowring’, being his English translation “From the Siamese” of a poem on “a mother’s merits”, with a list of the Siamese numerals in English and Thai. Album page 11 x 8 inches, in good condition. London, 9 March 1867. Sir John Bowring (1792-1872), linguist, writer, traveller and diplomat, Governor of Hong Kong, etc., author of The Kingdom and People of Siam; with a Narrative of the Mission to That Country in 1855.