Autograph letter signed by scholar Alfred Holder about Lambeth Palace 1876

HOLDER, Alfred (1840-1916). Autograph letter signed regarding access to manuscripts at Lambeth Palace Library. 
 
London, 12 September 1876.
 
1 sheet folded, written in ink on 1 side only, c. 170 x 115 mm. Old horizontal folds; a little light creasing and trivial marking and small amounts of loss to the lower side; very good.
 
A scholarly letter concerning access to medieval and Anglo-Saxon manuscripts at Lambeth Palace Library. Holder thanks the recipient for an invitation to visit Lambeth Palace on a Thursday morning, before listing the manuscripts he is interested in including “The Fight at Finnesburg”, described as a small fragment of an Anglo-Saxon poem, together with Lambeth codices containing Claudian and Horace. Holder further references George Hickes’ Thesaurus linguarum Septentrionalium, the great early study of northern languages and Anglo-Saxon scholarship.
 
Alfred Holder was a German philologist and classical scholar, particularly associated with Celtic and early medieval studies as well as his three-volume lexicon of Celtic languages.