Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c25.17

c25.17

I had the favour of your letter of the 17th March 1791 by the Essex, the last ship that arrived here from Europe. I was greatly flattered to find that what I had done was acceptable to you and that you give me encouragement to move into the subject which I proposed to you. The arts of India certainly afford the most interesting objects of enquiry. I have been always of that opinion and in the course of my stay in this country I have made many observations that in my opinion are worthy of being known. I hope by the *Essex*, which will sail in about six weeks hence, I may be able to begin the subject. Indeed, it is a field in which there are so many beautiful objects that one is distracted with the variety and at a loss to determine which is most worthy of his attention.