Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Thomas Reade.

(1777-1869), Principal Librarian of the British Museum. Three pages, 4to, fold marks, some marking but text clear and complete. He asks Reade to welcome a friend (Sir Reginald Warren) should he visit Tunis after visiting Egypt. He reports on a young man who will send a letter to Reade via Warren probably mentioning his progress in the Museum ("in the Arrangement of our Geography") and his important discovery of "a bird's eye view of your country [Tunisia]" which includes a view of the Palace in which Reade is living. He mentions having dinner with Amyot (see DNB) at Hudson Gurney's "and talked not a little of your Phoenicians, which he tells me are still boxed up." He gives some details of Warren's ancestry (great grandson of a Mr Bray, Amyot's "predecessor as Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries" and descendant of someone of significance during the Wars of the Roses).