[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 October 1767:]
'Pray, pray get on as fast as you can with your Arabic, that you may be fit to translate for us forty-four Assemblies, or ingenious conversations, by Hariri, the son of Himam; there are fifty of them, six just translated by a gentleman of Cambridge, and we are undone to know whether the whole fifty can be equally dull and unedifying. Did you ever read Noah? it seems to me even in the translation delightfully fine.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot Print: Book
''Finished "[The] Rose and Ring" (how satisfying) and turned over the "Assemblies of al-Hariri", which confirms my old opinion that there is but one book in Arabic and that is the "Arabian Nights". The Admiralty handbook of Mesopotamia a compilation of the first order, and invaluable to me. Bed 10, and again cold (72°).'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ronald Storrs Print: Book