Letter, Harcourt Buildings, Temple, [London] to D. Coates [manuscript]. 1825 Nov. 15.

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Letter, Harcourt Buildings, Temple, [London] to D. Coates [manuscript]. 1825 Nov. 15.

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Holograph letter to D. Coates, Secretary to the Church Missionary Society, offering to present to the Society Captain de Freycinet's vocabularies of Indian and Pacific languages, and suggesting that the Society loan Freycinet grammars or vocabularies compiled by its missionaries.

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Field, Barron, 1786-1846

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