Autograph Letter Signed in English to Reginald Lane Poole, (1857-1939, (Jan Pieter Nicolaas, 1834-1897, Dutch Historian of Philosophy, Musicologist) de LAND

Editor of the English Historical Review, and Lecturer in Diplomatic at Oxford, 1896-1927), thanking him on behalf of "our Committee of the Musical History Society" for "your fine present of Mr. Chappell's book", they are sending "a complete copy of the Society's publications. There are bookseller's boxes continually travelling between Amsterdam and Leipzig", where Poole was taking a doctorate, the collection includes "all that is published of Sweelinck", he talks most engagingly of other old music in the press, "I am not surprised at Mrs. Poole and yourself finding German life less congenial to English people than ours. By our position ... we are naturally less exclusive in our sympathies ... then you are not at Hamburg or Bremen where the constant intercourse with foreigners does the Germans a deal of good, but in the very midst of the country, where the Thirty Years' war and the invasions of old Napoleon have left their traces to this day ... Your wealthy classes in a town like Leipzig have never known true liberty from experience ... but it is hard to put up spiritual shutters ... and Messrs Luthardt and Kahnis are hardly a match in the long run against Goethe, Schiller, and such teachers of their nation", he hopes that "our king will be on his good behaviour" in London "and not exhibit the caprices of his grandfather the Emperor Paul as he is apt to do", 4 sides 8vo., Leiden, 8th January Land's interests were wide - Spinoza, the Syrian and Malabar churches, Javanese music to name a few. In 1876 Poole had translated Land's 'Principles of Hebrew Grammar' from the Dutch.