Autograph letter signed.
4to. 1½ pp.
€ 200.00
To a friend, praising his translation of a work by the Roman poet Piso: "I return you my best acknowledgements for the present of your translation, & if it will be any satisfaction to you to hear that you have gained a suffrage to your opinion, I do assure you you have one, in me. The Original, tho' a study of no small labour, has ever been in parts obscure to me - in those parts, I mean, which you particularly complain of, - but the point you more especially wish to elucidate, is as far as my judgment goes, made perfectly clear. There is a particular which strikes me as adding much to the probability of your conjecture of the Elder Piso's attempting a tragedy, which is, that according to the fashion of the age, every man of Education attempted to write in verse, & most of them for the Stage - Jul. Ceasar produced an Oedipus [...] & Augustus would have done as much if he could [...] if this observation should please you, I imagine instances enough might be collected to satisfy a Scaliger or an Heinsius [...]".
Very lightly brownstained. Mounted on a strip of paper. Loosely enclosed is a lithographed portrait of Vincent, likewise mounted on paper.
