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A Letter to his Uncle
To
ANDREW MITCHELL "My Dear Uncle, In my undergraduate days, a residence in Gottingen during the Long Vacation of 1874 was a critical point in my life. Then for the first time, under the tuition of Professor THEODOR BENEFREY, I came into close relations with a great scholar of the modern type, and gained some insight into modern methods of literary investigation; and my thoughts have ever since turned towards the border lands between European and Asiatic civilisation. That visit, like many other things, I owe to you; and now I send you the result, such as it is, the best that I can do, asking that you will allow it to go forth with your name attached to it. I remain always, your affectionate nephew, WILLIAM MITCHELL RAMSAY." King's College, Aberdeen, 17th September, 1895 Intro to
book:
W. M. Ramsay , "St. Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen" Fourth Ed. (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1895).
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