urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020373:	edition	
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020373:1	writingSession	
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020373:1.1	head	<hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#fr">abschrift.</hi>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020373:1.2	p	when i had the honor of writing to you a fort<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typohyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />night ago i intended to have as lied your kind aid in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />behalf of my friend <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703">hodgson</persname> who is devoted to the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />sciences and to the subject of the „education in the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />vernacular“.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020373:1.3	p	mr. <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703">hodgson</persname> wants „an elementary treatise on <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />geography (in french to be translated by himself into <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hindu) calculated for the young hindu and to give<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="35" />all the important and indisputable parts of the sub<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typohyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />jects and only such as are indisputable.“
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020373:1.4	p	
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urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020373:1.4.1.1	row	<cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">1) political, with the provinces and towns of eminence.</cell>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020373:1.4.1.2	row	<cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">2) physical, the mountain chains and rivers.</cell>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020373:1.4.1.3	row	<cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">3) ethnographical</cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#leftbraced" rows="3">illustrating only the leading facts <lb />in the distribution of man, plants <lb />and animals.</cell>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020373:1.4.1.4	row	<cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">4) botanical</cell>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020373:1.4.1.5	row	<cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">5) zoological</cell>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020373:1.5	p	if thought proper by the author maps of currents <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />aerial and oceanic, of isothermal lines and geology <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />should be added.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020373:1.6	p	mr. <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703">hodgson</persname> has directed the <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="cdd358d1-3d9c-4aff-9358-d13d9ccaff22" corresp="#cd94386a-5810-40a8-9438-6a581070a8cb" type="editorialnote">secretary</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="cd94386a-5810-40a8-9438-6a581070a8cb" corresp="#cdd358d1-3d9c-4aff-9358-d13d9ccaff22" type="editorial">eventuell handelte es sich hier um <persname ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0016020 http://d-nb.info/gnd/119278294">aloys sprenger</persname>, der von 1845 bis 1847 das delhi college leitete und damit zugleich sekretär der <orgname ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020403">delhi vernacular translation society</orgname> war. jedoch weilte er ab märz 1847 in lucknow (uttar pradesh, <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">indien</placename>). es könnte sich auch um john henry taylor bzw. francis taylor handeln, der von 1848 bis 1850 stellvertretend für sprenger als 'acting principal' die leitung übernahm.</note> of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><orgname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020403">vernacular society</orgname> at <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005507 https://www.geonames.org/1273294">delhi</placename>, to remit <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="100" unit="pfund_sterling">£ 100</measure> to any <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />person, whom you may recommend to provide the msc. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of such a work in french; which money will either be <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />paid to yourself or agents at once; or to the author <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />on his remitting the msc., as you think proper. should <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />you think this insufficient remuneration, mr. <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703">hodgson</persname> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />offers to make it <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="150" unit="pfund_sterling"><choice> <orig>l.</orig> <reg>£</reg> </choice> 150 sterling</measure>.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020373:1.7	p	a quarto size would be most convenient for a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />school-book. the zoological and botanical maps to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />contain little sketches of the conspicuous objects of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />each region, but these are not to be crowded.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020373:1.8	p	we are quite at a loss to know whom to apply to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />for assistance in this matter and i take the great li<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typohyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />berty of applying to you because i think that amongst <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the many young geographers in <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005221 https://www.geonames.org/2950159">berlin</placename> you may know<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="36" />one, to whom the remuneration would be acceptable, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />and who could command such aid as to make the work <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#i">accurate</hi>; it cannot be too simple and precise.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020373:1.9	p	you too will i know highly approve of the noble <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />liberality of the individuals, where love for the spread <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of sound geographical knowledge amongst the natives <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">india</placename>, has volunteered this sum.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020373:1.10	p	i now quite expect to be able to explore <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">kinchin<g ref="#typohyphen" /><lb break="no" />junga</placename> in <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" from="1848-10-01" to="1848-10-31" cert="high" calendar="#gregorian">october</date>; as the government have taken up <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the question of our rights to travel in <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312">sikhim</placename> with the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />object of forwarding my views. now i am taking <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hourly meteorological observations from 8<hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#sup">h</hi> am. to 2<hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#sup">h</hi> pm. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the barometrical fluctuations are small and very irregu<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typohyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />lar. this is perhaps the most equable climate i ever <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />was in.