Friedrich Max Müller to Faraday   24 April 18611

Ray Lodge | Maidenhead. | April 24

Dear Sir,

I send you enclosed a list of the languages which form the Aryan or Indo-European Family. You were kind enough to say that you would see what could be done to get these names written out legibly and systematically. If it can be done without too much trouble & expense, I shall have those other lists, not quite so large, containing the Semitic & Turanian families, and a comparation table of the verb to be in the principal languages of the Aryan family. I shall not want the Diagrams before my 5th. Lecture, May the 11th. I send you the most difficult Diagram to day because you will be able to tell me on Saturday2 whether it is feasable or not.

I remain, Dear Sir, | Yours faithfully | Max Müller

Professor Faraday.

1
Dated on the basis of the reference to Müller’s lectures at the Royal Institution.
2
That is 27 April 1861 when Müller delivered the third of nine lectures on ‘The Science of Language’. RI MS GB 2: 125.

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