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Letter from Dr Samuel Johnson to Warren Hastings, 29th January 1781.Artist: Dr Samuel Johnson
Letter from Dr Samuel Johnson to Warren Hastings, 29th January 1781. Letter from Johnson to Warren Hastings, Governor-General of Bengal, asking for his support to a projected translation of Ariosto by John Hoole, Auditor at the India House. Hoole's translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso was published in 1783, Warren Hastings subscribing for ten copies. From the third series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I-V, (London, 1899).
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18th century
Ariosto
ARTS
author
color
CORRESPONDENCE
Doctor Johnson
Dr Johnson
Dr Samuel
Dr Samuel Johnson
eighteenth century
FACSIMILE
Governor
Governor of Bengal
Handwriting
Hastings
Hoole
JOB
JOHN
John Hoole
JOHNSON
letter
Literature
LUDOVICO
LUDOVICO ARIOSTO
manuscript
OCCUPATION
Poetry
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SAMUEL
Samuel Johnson
Signature
The Print Collector
Translation
Warren
Warren Hastings
Writer