Mounted on inside of front cover of Jacobi's A Few Suggestions of Plain Letterings for Artists and Others. London, Printed for presentation at the Chiswick Press, 1899 (Lilly Z250 .J2).
Enclosure: Printed acknowledgement filled in with the title of the book received, dated 5th September 1912, to Robert Hewitt, Esq. 1 p. 23.5 cm. Removed from Hewitt, Coffee: its history, cultivation, and uses. New York, D. Appleton and Co., 1872 (Lilly SB269 .H611 C67).
Corrections and amendments in another hand Early, apparently unpublished manuscript account of a voyage from India to the Cape of Good Hope in the late eighteenth century. Prompted by close friends, the author's account describes a region then little known to the French. The Napoleonic Wars were underway at this time and the author speculates on the military campaign in Egypt and its ramifications for the rest of the continent. Author includes considerable ethnographic information, including speculations on the political impact of the region's geography, differences between tribes, and a physical description of the Caffres and their marriage customs, religion, and agriculture, as well as notes on the natural history encountered. Of linguistic interest is the six page vocabulary at the rear of the document