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PRESENTATION COPY. (2). LEWIN, THOMAS HERBERT(ed.). The Lewin Letters. A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of an English Family 1756 - 1884. I-II. London (Archibald Constable & Co Ltd, "Printed for private circulation") 1909.

4:o (about 265x180 mm.). Plates, one in colours.
Cloth, somewhat worn and faded, spines with pasted title labels, upper edges gilt, otherwise uncut. Title page in vol I with missing corner. A few annotations in the text and margins.Gift inscription from Thomas Herbert Levin to his cousin Arthur Hale Levin on first endpaper and last endpaper (upside down) in vol I and on first endpaper in vol II, a short letter from T. H. Levin dated 1909 loose in the book. Pasted-in newspaper cut in Swedish on page V in vol. II. 2 volumes.

Thomas Herbert Lewin was born in London on 1 Apr 1839, and was educated at Littlehampton and Addiscombe Military College. In 1857, Lewin traveled to India as a lieutenant and was involved in several campaigns to put down the Indian Mutiny. He became the District Superintendent in Police at Rampur Bandleah, 1861-1864, later taking up the same post at Noacolly, South Bengal and Chittagong, 1864-1866. In March 1866, he was promoted to Captain, and appointed first as Temporary Superintendent and later permanent Deputy Commissioner and Political Agent for the unregulated Chittagong Hill Tracts - a post that he held until 1875. In 1874, Lewin returned to England due to ill health, was made an honorary Lieutenant Colonel and received a Colonel´s pension. He returned to India in 1875 to take up the post of Deputy Commissioner of Cooch Behar, and later became Deputy Commissioner of Darjeeling, where he remained until his retirement in 1879. In 1885, Thomas Herbert bought Parkhurst, a house in Abinger, near Dorking, Surrey where he lived until his death in 1916. Lewin was the author of several works on India and Indian languages.

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2018-11-06