Lettre de Thomas Crofts à Jean-François Séguier, 1776-08-21
Creators: name: Crofts, Thomas
name: Crofts, Thomas
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
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Year: 2022
Subjects: Antiquités (général)

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Tunbridge Wells 21 August 1776

Dear Sir,

An uninterrupted course of bad health which has kept me much in the country &amp; engrossed my whole attention ever since my arrival in England must be my apology for answering so very late &amp; so very imperfectly the queries with wich you honoured me when at Nîmes &amp; since on your obliging favour of the 24 january. I will take them in the ordre they occur.
Swinton De priscis romanorum litteris is a small tract, no where to be found at present, and I believe was early suppressed by the author.
Weeveri Epitaphi are all modern, and contain nothing to your purpose.
His Discourse on the urn burial and his posthumus works have no inscriptions.
Inscriptiones varia antiquae fol Romae was it seems presented by Mister Barrel to the late Dr Taylor, who at his death, begneathed it with his other books to the library of a county-school. Mister Barrel can give me no more precise account [fol. 13v] of its title &amp; contents than you have already but thinks the inscriptions are all of the lower age.
Chandler in his Travels in Ionia &amp; Graece constantly refers to the Inscriptions to the volume before published and gives no new ones.
Bryant’s Analysis of ancient mythology has been very well received by the public, and is esteemed a work of profound erudition and great ingenuity; tho some critics pretend to controvert his system and allege that it is built solely on fancyful ethymology &amp; uncertain data.
This is all the informations I can at present furnish you: but I have employed some friends in London, who upon my return thethen in the winter will, I hope enable me to answer more precisely &amp; satisfactorely your other queries.
The Catalogues you mention will wait upon you by the first oppoturnity which offers : and if ever I see Mister Chad Lewis I will not fail to deliver him your message.
My best thanks are due to you for your [fol. 14] very kind offers of service. My present passion is the completion of all collection of the greek poets &amp; historians in all the rare editions. Should you have an oppoturnity of picking me up any ot them, particulary the Tragedians &amp; Homer published by the Morels &amp; Liberti at Paris in 4°. You would oblige me infinitely.
May I presume to ask me favour of a continuation of your commands ? 
Let not, I pray my late seeming inattantion discourage yo. A return of health, with wich I am now flattered, will put it in my power truth to execute your future orders with more ponctuality: and I shall really rejoice in every opportunity of testifying those sentiments of esteem &amp; zeal with wich I am proud to call mysef

 Dear Sir,

 You truely devoted
 Friend &amp; servant

[fol. 14v] A Monsieur

Monsieur Séguier

Nîmes

 Tomas Croft
description: Source: [établissement de conservation] Nîmes, Bibliothèque Carré d'Art [cote] ms. 249, fol. 13-14