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National Library of Scotland, MS 42552. ALS; 3p. . Previously published: Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends. Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768–1843, 2 vols (London, 1891), II, pp. 110–111 [in part].
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Thank you for the draft. I am now preparing for you with all proper dispatch both the Peninsular
War & the Book of the Church; & you will have the commencement of the first very shortly, & that of the
second soon after it,
An hour or two before I left London, I found a card from Sir George Dallasrs Hastingsr Hastings papers & correspondence, accompanying it with his life. That life would requires a
compendious view of our Indian history down to the pres time of his administration, & in its
progress it embraces the preservation of our Indian Empire, & the establishment of the presen
existing system. Something must be interwoven concerning the history of the native powers, Moor &,
Mahratta, &c & their institutions, I see how all this is to be introduced, & see also that no subject
can afford materials more important or more various. And what a pleasure it will be to record the triumph of such a
man as Hastings over the tremendous combination of his persecutors at home! – I had a noble catastrophe in writing
the life of Nelson,
Procure for me the “Memoires pour servir a l histoire d’Espagne, par Nellerto;”