JARVIS, Samuel Farmar. 13329

£100

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Autograph Letter Signed, to Thomas Waddington at St. Remy, responding to his invitation, discussing his recent arrival in France, the difficulties of placing his children in schools, deploring “the want of religion, involving also a want of moral principle, so lamentably conspicuous in the French character”. 2 pp. 8½ x 7½ inches, integral address leaf, in good condition. Paris, 25 October 1826. Samuel Farmar Jarvis D.D. (1786-1851), professor of oriental literature at Trinity College Hartford, author of A Chronological Introduction to the History of the Church, A Discourse on the Religion of the Indian Tribes of North America, and other works.