John BOWRING (1792–1872). Letter from the author, London, No - Lot 6

John BOWRING (1792–1872). Letter from the author, London, November 25, 1826, to Jean-Alexandre Buchon, at the newspaper *Le Constitutionnel*; 1½ pages, in-8 format, with address. He recommends the bearer of the letter, who is leaving “for Paris with the aim of perfecting his study of the French language and literature,” and asks Buchon to assist him during his stay. “I have been furiously attacked—as you will have seen from my letter—in my honor because of the unfortunate events in Greece. I have not seen what you wrote about it, but I have no doubt that you will soon have recognized how much partisanship and slander must have distorted all the facts”… [John Bowring (1792–1872), one of the founders of the Philhellenic Committee in London, had been implicated in the scandal surrounding speculation on the British loan to Greece.]