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Tankerville, Boscombe

Bournemouth

Dec[ember]. 2, 1903

Dear Sir

In reply to yours of the 29^th as soon as I get home I will see if I can find a copy of Languages for you. Nearly all my works are out of print. They were only for a small class of readers & not very many copies were printed. This was a Paper I wrote for the Victoria Institute, & which some bigots on it thought not orthodox eno'[ugh] to bind with the Proceedings, though they printed it. I said that the crux of language was not contained in 'occult imitation.'

I have lived for many years deep in the country I have never been able, had I desired, to earwig editors & critics, so I [2] have got along as best I could, but Gladstone¹, Max Muller², Sayce³, Sir P le Page Renout⁴ & many others have always taken much interest in my work. I should just like you to notice the frontispiece in Vol. 2 from which you will see that by the aid of two existing fragments I have restored the Euphratean Planisphere, & a fragments shows that its constellations were nearly all those which we have at present, excepting of course the modern additions. You will observe that the Euphrateans made a very fair start with astronomy & that the Greeks borrowed very much which it has generally been supposed they discerned

Yours very truly | R. Brown [signature]

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P.S. As to Socialism, at present we have only the word between us; as Plato says, I can imagine one kind of it which might be grand & beneficial, & another which would spell ruin & anarchy.