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Wyndham Place: Sept. 12, 1831. 4to, 1 p., traces of removal from an album-leaf on verso, no damage. § Dr. Hanthall [or Haulhall?], an allegedly distinguished Horace scholar introduced to Dibdin by Richard Heber, with whom Hanthall/Haulthall corresponded in Latin: see Dibdin s Reminiscences (1838), ii:967, quoting a knowledgeable letter to Heber on the Kloss Collection. Dibdin has met him twice at Spencer House, where he is now busily employed at his Horatian labours . . . an amiable and worthy man, aetatis suae 35 (circ.) as I judge: with a zeal & diligence in his favourite research beyond anything I ever saw. He was a 12 month at Paris wooing Quintus Horatius Flaccus. I enclose a copy of his Program." We can find no mention whatever of this scholar, to Dibdin a celebrated Horatian , save Dibdin s. Seller Inventory # 123841
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Title: ALS concerning Dr. Hanthall , recipient ...
Publication Date: 1831
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