Kallinikos 1858 letter - in Elliott book only?

[Steven Avery]

Letter from Kallinikos Hiermomonachros - dated Aug. 1858
Journal of Sacred Literature, 1863 -
Miscellanies - The Codex Sinaiticus and its Antiquity - p. 210-234
https://books.google.com/books?id=kR82AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA223
https://books.google.com/books?id=gnstAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA223

Extract from a letter dated Smyrna, 5 (17) Aug., 1858:

''. . . These also send thee greeting: the Deacon Hilarion, and thy friends Nicander and Niphon, who lent thee the books of Esdras at the time when thou wast preparing in Athos, at the exhortation of my uncle, the present (of the Holy Scriptures) to the glorious Emperor Nicholas. ... I told them all about it, and how the manuscript in question is now in Mount Sinai, and how thy indifference (forgive me, my son, for this true statement of mine) frustrated the original intention. I certified them that this MS. of the Scriptures is still preserved in Sinai (as thou also knowest), because I saw it there with my own eyes when I was in the Monastery of St. Catherine in 1845 in the month of July, and handled it with my own hands, and found it very defective, and somewhat changed; and when I asked the reason, I understood from Gabriel, the keeper of the treasures, that his predecessor had given the manuscript to a German, who visited the monastery in 1844 in the month of May, and who having had the MS. in his hands several days, secretly removed a part of it, and went away during the time that the librarian lay ill, afflicted with a typhoid fever. Nothing more could 1 learn about it, but I hope (if God will) to go next year again into Egypt, and thence to Sinai, when I shall search into all things, and send the result for thy information and that of thy friends.
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Farrer

As such proof Simonides showed Mr. Hodgkin a letter to himself at Munich from a friend B. Panchalos in London, dated March, 1858, which refers chiefly to these publications by Kallinikos in 1853. A copy of this letter in the handwriting of Simonides is still in the possession of Mr. Hodgkin, with a note by him, to the effect that the original letter was in a peculiar writing and that the postmarks seemed to be real ones. The writer professes to have brought from Odessa to London the letters and some works by Simonides which Kallinikos had lithographed. But Mr. Hodgkin's note bears the date of 21st July, 1863, and it is conceivable that the original letter had been produced at a later date than its apparent one.

 

[Steven Avery]

Elliott p. 85 - Same letter

This came up on the BVDB forum with some wild and weird stuff from Bill Brown.

Steven Avery Never Actually READ Elliott's Book He Disparages As "Deficient"
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/bib...er-actually-read-elliott-s-book-he-t6042.html

To do so, more letters from Kallinikos were reproduced. Two of these are
dated later than the first letter published, but of the others one is dated 21st
November 1861 and the other in 1858.

The letters are printed in The Literary Churchman 16th January 1863 and
more fully in The Guardian 14th January 1863. In the former the editor introduces
the letters in this way:

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p. 87
The first of the four letters of Kallinikos to Simonides is dated 5th ( = 17th)
August 1858 and comes not from Alexandria but from Smyrna.
... These also send thee greeting, the Deacon Hilarion, and thy friends
Nicander and Niphon, who lent thee the Books of Esdras at the time when
thou wast preparing in Athos, at the exhoration of my uncle, the present (of
the Holy Scriptures) to the glorious Emperor Nicholas. They also wished
to know whether the work was finished, and given to the Emperor, and
whether thou wert suitably required for it; because they had no certain
knowledge about these matters. I told them all about it, and how the
manuscript in question is now in Mount Sinai, and how thy indifference
(forgive me, my son, for this true statement of mine) frustrated the original
intention. I certified them that this MS. of the Scriptures is still preserved in
Sinai (as thou also knowest), because I saw it there with my own eyes when
I was in the Monastery of St. Catherine in 1845 in the month of July, and
handled it with my own hands, and found it very defective, and somewhat
changed and when I asked the reason, I understood from Gabriel, the
keeper of the treasures, that his predecessor had given the manuscript to a
German, who visited the monastery in 1844 in the month of May, and who
having had the MS. in his hands several days, secretly removed a part of it,
and went away during the time that the librarian lay ill, afflicted with a
typhoid fever. Nothing more could I learn about it, but I hope (if God will)
to go next year again into Egypt, and thence to Sinai, when I shall search
into all things, and send the result for thy information and that of thy
friends ...
Farewell, my son, and pardon the garrulity of an old man. - Thy
Spiritual Father,
Kallinikos Hieromonachos