Letters from various correspondents and other papers, 1798-1865.

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Letters from various correspondents and other papers, 1798-1865.

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Contains letters to Bowring from British correspondents, including government figures and foreign correspondents. Letters pertain to diplomatic, commercial, and political matters, and to his travels and writings. Also includes manuscripts of poems in Icelandic, Swedish, and Latin; and translations of Icelandic poems.

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Houghton Library

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Bowring, John, 1792-1872

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John Bowring was an English statesman and author, renowned as a polyglot. Born in Exeter and raised as a Unitarian, he began working at the age of thirteen, and actively sought to learn languages from travellers. He established a mercantile firm, and travelled extensively, meeting Jeremy Bentham; a controversy over some Greek loans affected his reputation and financial status, but Bentham helped by appointing him political editor of Westminster Review. Bowring published several volumes of verse,...