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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 [[Epistolary|Epistolary reportage]] [[Travel literature|(Travel literature]]) of the 1750 written by the British doctor Maihows; the ''Letters'' remain anonymous for over a century unitl 1881 when the work was published in [[French]].<ref name="grandtour">{{Cite web|title=Biografia — Grand Tour|url=
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 other's artistic knowledge, but to enrich the scientific-technological ones.<ref name="grandtour" />
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== Publishing story ==
The work had a very troubled publishing story.<ref name="grandtour" /> Published anonymously in 1750, the "letters" were published in London in 1760<ref>https://archive.org/details/atourthroughsev00gentgoog</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=http://books.google.com/books?id=2eYNAAAAYAAJ|year=1760|editor=Printed for W. Bristow}}</ref><ref>https://www.worldcat.org/title/tour-through-several-parts-of-europe-and-the-east-especially-the-following-places-bologne-paris-and-its-environs-nemours-and-lyons-containing-the-writers-observations-on-the-productions-of-nature-the-monuments-of-art-and-the-manners-of-the-inhabitants-in-2-volumes-1/oclc/888832925&referer=brief_results</ref> They were translated into French and published in four volumes in 1763 under the title ''Voyage en France, en Italie et aux isles de l'archipel'',<ref name="MaihowsPuisieux1763">{{Cite book|
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