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Zustand: Good. Als. 3pp. in French. Angelo de Gubernatis (autograph letter to Lord Reay, saying he had just come back from India and adding that the King of Italy had accepted the patronage of the Indian Museum in Florence and would attend the official opening 15 May 1886); .Born in Turin on April 7, 1840, Angelo de Gubernatis was born the seventh child of Giambattista de Gubernatis, who was an official in the Savoy's internal revenue department, and his wife, Maria Cleofe Turchetti, a doctor's daughter from Alessandria. His mother saw to Angelo's early education before he was sent to a private school and later attended the University of Turin. The year after graduating, he was awarded a scholarship to study Sanskrit in Berlin under eminent scholars like the German Indologist Albrecht Weber. The following year, he joined the Regio Istituto where he would remain for the next 27 years, except for a short interlude in 1865 when he briefly resigned to enter Mikhail Bakunin's circle of anarchists, only to be reinstated in 1867 after he left the group. In 1865, he married Sofia Besobrasov, Bakunin's cousin at the Russian Church in Naples. They would have two children, Cordelia, born in 1867 and Alessandro, in 1873. The year of Cordelia's birth, Sofia purchased a small villa in Santo Stefano di Calcinaia, near Signa, where the family lived. De Gubernatis was soon appointed Secretary-General of the Italian Society for Oriental Students, which had been created in 1872 and he dedicated a great deal of his time and energy to publishing various research journals as well as writing plays and poetry. Most significantly, in 1878, he played a key role in organizing the Fourth International Congress of Orientalists in Florence, after those held in Paris (1873), London (1874) and St Petersburg (1876). This was a prestigious coup for him and the city.,Donald James Mackay was born in the Hague on 22 December 1839. He was naturalised in 1877 and succeeded to the title of 11th Baron Reay in 1881. From 1884-1886 he was Rector of St. Andrew's University. From 1885-1890 he was Governor of Bombay. From 1892-1918 he was Lord-Lieutenant of Roxburghshire. He served as Under-Secretary for India from 1894-1895, and from 1897-1904 as Chairman of the London School Board. He was President of the Royal Asiatic Society and University College London, and the first President of the British Academy from 1901-1907. He died on 1 August 1921.