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'''''Letters from several parts of Europe and the East''''' (full title ''Letters from several parts of Europe and the East. Written in the Years 1750, ... in there are contained the Writer' s Observation on the Productions of Nature, the Monuments of Art, and the Manners of the Inhabitants'') is a 1750 epistolary reportage (a collection of his letters) written by the British doctor Maihows; the ''Letters'' remained anonymous for over a century until 1881, when the work was published in [[French language|French]].<ref name="grandtour">{{Cite web|title=Biografia — Grand Tour|url=https://grandtour.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/indici/viaggiatori/maihows/biografia|access-date=2021-03-23|website=grandtour.bncf.firenze.sbn.it}}</ref>
The travel takes place for the most part in Italy. Unlike most travelers who did the [[Grand Tour]], Maihows' intent was not to expand his own and
''Letters from several parts of Europe'' is one of the accounts that helped to outline the image of Italy at that time and of [[Tuscany]] in particular.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gli indici — Grand Tour|url=https://grandtour.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/indici|access-date=2021-03-29|website=grandtour.bncf.firenze.sbn.it}}</ref>
== Publishing history ==
The book had a very troubled publishing story.<ref name="grandtour" /> Published anonymously in 1750, the "Letters" were republished in London in 1760<ref>{{Cite book|last=An English gentleman|url=http://archive.org/details/atourthroughsev00gentgoog|title=A Tour Through Several Parts of Europe and the East: Especially the ...|date=1760|publisher=Printed for W. Bristow|others=New York Public Library|language=English}}</ref> in two volumes with the title ''A tour through several parts of Europe and the East''.<ref>{{Cite book|author=English gentleman|title=A tour through several parts of Europe and the East: especially the following places: Bologne, Paris and its environs, Nemours and Lyons ... In a series of letters from an English gentleman of distinguished abilities: containing the writer's observations on the productions of nature, the monuments of art, and the manners of the inhabitants ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2eYNAAAAYAAJ|year=1760|editor=Printed for W. Bristow}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Maihows|url=https://www.worldcat.org
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== Further
*{{Cite book|surname=Maihows|title=Voyage en France et Italie et aux Isles de l'Archipel, ou Lettres Écrites de Plusieurs Endroits de l'Europe et du Levant en 1750, &c. |volume=1|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=6107233&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&search_terms=DTL7&pds_handle=|year=1763|publisher=chez Charpentier, libraire, Quai des Augustins, a l'entree de la rue du Hurepoix, a S. Crysostome|location=A Paris|language=fr}}
*{{Cite book|surname=Maihows|title=Voyage en France et Italie et aux Isles de l'Archipel, ou Lettres Écrites de Plusieurs Endroits de l'Europe et du Levant en 1750, &c. |volume=2|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=6108340&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&search_terms=DTL7&pds_handle=|year=1763|publisher=chez Charpentier, libraire, Quai des Augustins, a l'entree de la rue du Hurepoix, a S. Crysostome|location=A Paris|language=fr}}
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