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Autograph Letter Signed ‘Garcin de Tassy’, evidently to an editor of an English periodical, offering an article which would correct recent discussion about the Temple of Somnath. In French. 2 pp. 6 x 3½ inches. Paris, 18 March 1843. Garcin de Tassy (1794-1878), French orientalist, studied the Hindi language. His works include Mémoires sur les particularités de la religion musulmane dans l’Inde (1832); Les aventures de Kamrup (translation, 1834); translations of works by the poet Wali (1834); the Histoire de la littérature hindoue e hindoustani (2. Ed. 1871, 3 Vols.); Rudiments de la langue hindouie (1847); Rhétorique et prosodie des langues de l’Orient musulman (1848, 2. Ed. 1873); Chrestomathie hindie et hindouie (1849); La doctrine de l’amour (translation from Hindi, 1859); Cours d’hindoustani (1870) and La langue et la littérature hindoustanies 1850-69 (2. Ed. 1874).