[‘I am not a Servian scholar’: Max Müller, Sanskrit scholar, Oxford's first Professor of Comparative Philology.] Autograph Letter Signed, giving advice on the study of the ‘Servian’ [i.e. Serbian] language.

See his long and appreciative entry in the Oxford DNB, concluding with the praise of his ‘pioneering achievements, especially in the fields of Vedic studies and comparative philology’. 2pp, 12mo. Aged and discoloured, with hole at foot caused by removal from mount, causing loss to words ‘to show’. Addressed to ‘Dear Sir’ and signed ‘Max Müller’. Begins: ‘I am not a Servian scholar, and I know of no Servian Grammar except one by Wuk Stephanowitch, translated into German by Jacob Grimm. There is a Servian, German & Latin Dictionary by the same.’ He suggests that the recipient ‘go to Messrs Williams & Norgate, 14 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden’, as they ‘keep a large stock of books of this kind, and would be able t[o sh]ow you the best and latest grammars, Dictionaries &c’.