[ Rev. Dr Bulkeley Bandinel, Bodley's Librarian. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('B Bandinel | Bodleys Librarian') [ to Major R. G. Macgregor ], regarding a presentation to the Bodleian of two copies of 'Translations from the Greek Anthology'. ]

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper, with faint stain to first page. The letter is of interest for Bandinel's reference to his education, with the recipient, under Richard Valpy (1754-1836) at Reading School.) The recipient is not named, but the letter is addressed to Major Robert Guthrie Macgregor (1805-1869), and concerns his 'Translations from the Greek Anthology', which was published without date in London by Nissen and Parker. Bandinel returns Guthrie his 'very best thanks for the Honor you have done this Library and the humble individual who has the care of it, in sending two copies of your translation from the Greek Anthology'. He anticipates 'great pleasure from the perusal of the Volumes, which would be not a little encreased [sic] from the knowledge that the Author was educated at the same school and by the same celebrated individual as himself viz Dr Valpy.'