Brighton - Mahomed's Vapour Baths 1828 interesting autograph letter dated July 16th 1828 - from the late 18th/early 19th composer Thomas Stirling, 4pp 4to - mentioning that his mother had been at Brighton 'taking Mahomed's Vapour Baths and we have received letters from her but have not yet heard I am sorry to say of any great benefit from them. These baths, however, are in general so efficacious in complaints of the kind that we have every hope from them'. Elsewhere in the letter Stirling mentions that he was sending his correspondent a copy of his 'little work' and discusses its progress through its publication and his hope for good reviews. The Indian adventurer and author Sake Dean Mahomed opened the first Indian restaurant in Britain in London in 1810. In 1814, he and his family moved back to Brighton and opened the first commercial "shampooing" vapour masseur bath in England, "Mahomed's Baths", on the site now occupied by the Queen's Hotel. Located on the seafront, the luxurious bathhouse offered therapeutic baths and shampooing with Indian oils. The success of the venture led him to be appointed shampooing surgeon to bother George IV and William IV