Autograph letter signed (“John Luzac”) to Theophilus Parsons, Leiden, 17 July 1803
Two and a half pages, 4to. John Luzac (1746-1807): Dutch lawyer, journalist and professor in Greek and History, of Huguenot origin. He was the most influential newspaper editor in the Western world in the years immediately preceding the French Revolution. The Dutch scholar-lawyer tells Parsons that he has been employed.....