Lettre de George Hay, vicomte Dupplin à Jean-François Séguier, 1738-05-12
Creators: name: Dupplin, George Hay vicomte
name: George Hay, Vicomte Dupplin
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
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Year: 2022
Subjects: Antiquités (général)

description: London may 12th 1738 OS [Dupplin]

Sir,

Your letter of the 26th of april received on monday last the 7th instant gave me of agreable news of your health ant that of the marquis Maffei. Nor was this the the only pleasure for hearing from a friend, naturally brings back to one’s memory of time we have passed together. Your compagny and the marquis recurred to my thoughts, the reflection delighted for a time, but left a cloudy wish behind that either you were here or ay Verona. Cloudy was a wish because it is to me certain when the one or other may happen.
Lord Oxford who retains a just regard for the marquis and for you, desires you to accept of this compliments and good wishes, tells me that he has not any manuscript of your Bibliotheque of Apollodorus. Had it been in this library, I should with pleasure have communicated to you the various reading, and I hope this disappointement will not however discourage the marquis and you from giving me your commands, which will always be executed ponctually.
As to literary world here, we have had lately [fol. 220v] published by Mister Hooke one volume of a roman history compiled by himself. He proposes one volume more next spring in quarto. This work meets with approbation from all the best judges here, and is accounted the best work of that kind extant. By the size you will judge that it is not a diffused history, but tho. it be consise, the material fact are more clearly and more fully stated than in any other, and the facts of lesser moment introduced in a short and agreable manner to preserve the connection. Il you will let me know where I can send them to the marquis Maffei. I would not fail to do it as soon as the other volume is published.
Doctor Shaw presents his book to the king this day. He is as fat as gay and as good nature as ever.
Mr Trumbull is at work upon a dissertation on the antient paintings, and severall plates are already graved for the works wich is much encouraged by that most generous patron of learning Dr Mead.
Milton’s prose works have been latley all published in two volumes folio, former edition having been in perfect. A young gentleman of New College Oxford, who writes extreamly well in Latin verse has under taken to translate the Paradise lost, for which he is to have /[fol 221 r] a reward of a thousand pounds sterling from a private gentleman who is desirous that our great genius of Poetry sould be read by all the learned nations.
Mister Anderson, a Scotish gentleman, famous for the knowledge of the Antiquities of his own country left behind him unfinished a noble work of seals and charters of Scotland graved and by the dissertations upon them. This work has since been completed by Mister Ruddiman and will soon appear. It is one of the finest attempts of that kind, but being mere by national will not be interesting to any but those of this country.
Mister Pope give us now and then a piece. He keeps his healthy pretty well.
I desire you will present my most humble respect to the marquis and that you will let me know him I can send him any pieces which may think will amuse him or at least will now and then put him in mind of England and his English friends.

I am

Sir

Your most obeident 
Humble servant

 Dupplin

Doctor Bentley has lately had a streak of […] and continues ill. You will not be surprised at it if you reflect what part he drunk.
description: Source: [établissement de conservation] Nîmes, Bibliothèque Carré d'Art [cote] ms. 141, fol. 220