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Autograph Letter Signed ‘Francis H.Egerton’, to Thomas Maurice, alerting him to a Sanscrit manuscript which Maurice might wish to see “before you print the remainder of your valuable work”. 2 pp. 10 x 8 inches, with the address leaf, in good condition. Middle Temple, 26 March 1799. Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (1756 –1829), known as Francis Egerton until 1823, was a noted British eccentric from the Egerton family and supporter of natural theology. According to the Parisian police, Egerton kept dogs and cats in his house which he dressed as ladies and gentlemen and would take them with him in his carriage. He bequeathed to the British Museum the valuable Egerton Manuscripts. The Rev. Thomas Maurice (1754-1824) was an oriental scholar and historian In 1791 he came before the public with two volumes of his Indian Antiquities: the rest were brought out at intervals. Maurice undertook a History of Hindostan, the three volumes of which, in quarto, were published in 1795, 1798, 1799, and a second edition appeared in 1821.