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Warren Hastings manuscript material : 2 items

Title
Warren Hastings manuscript material : 2 items, 1784-1811.
Author
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818.

Details

Additional Authors
Lawrence, Thomas, 1769-1830.
Found In
p1pc Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925 (CStRLIN)NYPW03-A5
Description
2 items
Summary
  • · To Captain Price : 1 autograph letter signed : [late Nov or early Dec 1784] : (MISC 0583) : regarding the sailing of the ship Surprise; with a note in another 18th century hand giving approximate date.
  • · To "Dear Sir" [probably Sir Thomas Lawrence, English painter] : 1 autograph letter signed : 22 Feb 1811 : (MISC 0584) : from Daylesford House : enclosing a check (no longer present) for "the balance due to you from me"; giving consent to the exhibition of a portrait of himself at the Royal Academy. Sir Thomas Lawrence's portrait of Hastings, commissioned for the wife of Colonel Barton, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1811.
Subjects
Access (note)
  • Restricted access;
Biography (note)
  • Warren Hastings, British Governor-General of Bengal from 1773 to 1785.
Call Number
Pforz MS
OCLC
301601214
Author
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818.
Title
Warren Hastings manuscript material : 2 items, 1784-1811.
Access
Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Biography
Warren Hastings, British Governor-General of Bengal from 1773 to 1785.
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Added Author
Lawrence, Thomas, 1769-1830. Addressee
Found In:
p1pc Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925 (CStRLIN)NYPW03-A5
Research Call Number
Pforz MS
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