Hugo Schuchardt Archiv

4 Clarendon Villas
Oxford. May. 9. 1897.

Dear Sir,

Pray accept my best thanks for your interesting essay on the Georgian language and the excellent map with which it is accompanied. In the year 1888 I paid a fairly long visit to this interesting country having a little before busied myself with the language, making use of Brosset’s Grammar.¹ I have read most oft he works which you cite in your Essay and indeed possess most of them. Erckert’s Map² I found very good indeed. I trust his work chiefly fort he map. All Radde’s³ works are also good. I have read a fairly good deal in German, Russian, & French writers on Georgian – especially the Russian reviews, Известия Кавказского отдела. When I was at Tiflis, I had many works presented to me by the Literary Society (which I have read carefully) and also by |2| Mr Gogitschayschwili⁴, whom you cite several times. I have found your Essay most suggestive – and am glad that the philology of the subject has fallen into the hands of a man who is so scientifically trained for the study. Brosset’s books are very useful, but he is somewhat prescientific. I have not read much Georgian lately as I have been so busy with Slavonic work. I am grateful to you for the pleasure and information which your Essay has given me.

I remain very truly
W. R. Morfill