Animadversions on the library and catalogues of the British Museum. A reply to Mr. Panizzi's statement; and a correspondence with that officer and the Trustees.
- Nicholas Harris Nicolas
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Animadversions on the library and catalogues of the British Museum. A reply to Mr. Panizzi's statement; and a correspondence with that officer and the Trustees. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![G8 oiler wliicl] a man convinced of the veracity of liis statements would have willingly accepted,” and adds that “J wrote in a much lower tone.”* And yet before he ventured to attribute the contents of that letter to so unworthy a cause, he had received all the articles which had ap])cared in the Spectator from me as their Auth(yi%—VL fact which he care- fully conceals. This candour on my part forms a striking contrast to a proceeding on his, which I am about to relate, and which has obliged me to advert to his Foreign origin. My reply to his note of the 22nd of May not suiting his purpose, he wrote the annexed letter on the following day :— TO SIR N. HARRIS NICOLAS. Hritifc’li Museum, Moy 2.3rd, 1846. My Dear Sir, Notwithstanding the, concluding part of your letter of yesterday, which shall be submitted to the Trustees witli the rest of our correspondence, I think that to find fault with ray department implies a cliarge against myself; still more so as in your second letter you began by declaring that my first was “ wholly unsatisfactory,” that in the time of my predecessors things were better managed, by their requiring only the Title of the books wanted by readers, and no Press-mark, that “ your next complaint ” should be to the Trustees themselves, and concluded by stating tliat their attention “ must shortly be called by the Public or by Government to the difficulties and delay arising from the present regulations and the state of the Catalogues in obtaining printed books.” These are certainly charges, and I naturally expected that you would do me the favour to bring them before the Trustees, so that I might have an opjiortunity of proving them groundless. I am glad that you now give me credit for good inten-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28038988_0076.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
