LETTER CCCXX.
To SHUMSÛDDEEN KHÂN and GHÛLÂM HYDER, DÂROGHAS of the
TOSHEH-KHÂNEH, (at PUTN); dated 14th DÂRÂEY. (17th July.)

A BOOK, entitled Fukhrû’s Shûyookh [or “the glory of the Shaikhs”], has been dispatched to you by the post. Of this book you are to get forty copies correctly and plainly written by the transcribers there [i. e. at Seringapatam], leaving fifteen blank leaves at the beginning and end of each copy. Let this be expeditiously done,* and let the several copies be forwarded to us as they are finished, and an entry be made of the same in the register of your department.

You must compare the books, which were sent to you [lately] by the post, with the catalogue forwarded [at the same time], and depositing them in our library, make an entry thereof in the register of the [proper] department. Of the books in question we have retained seven volumes.

OBSERVATIONS.

The book here directed to be copied is mentioned in Major Stewart’s catalogue, at page 157; where it is stated to be a treatise on the duties of pious Musulmans. So many copies were doubtlessly ordered, with a view to the general dissemination of the doctrines inculcated in the work, which, of course, corresponded with the Sultan’s own intolerant and bigotted principles.

It is not improbable, that the books, mentioned in the last paragraph of the preceding letter, were part of the booty acquired at Adoni.