BIB_ID
108571
Accession number
MA 9985
Creator
Davies, Thomas, 1713-1785.
Display Date
Place of writing not specified, 1783 January and 1786 October 17.
Description
2 item (2 pages) ; 12.7 x 19.5 and 8.8 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Mounted together on cardstock.
The receipt signed by Susanna Davies contains an impressed duty stamp. She spells her first name "Susannah."
These receipts were removed from an extra-illustrated version of Letters of James Boswell Addressed to the Rev. W.J. Temple (London: Richard Bentley, 1857) that had been enlarged to three folio volumes with the addition of autograph letters and 258 portraits "as collected by E. Hornby." Other letters from the volumes are now catalogued as MA 981.1-109.
The receipt signed by Susanna Davies contains an impressed duty stamp. She spells her first name "Susannah."
These receipts were removed from an extra-illustrated version of Letters of James Boswell Addressed to the Rev. W.J. Temple (London: Richard Bentley, 1857) that had been enlarged to three folio volumes with the addition of autograph letters and 258 portraits "as collected by E. Hornby." Other letters from the volumes are now catalogued as MA 981.1-109.
Summary
Consisting of two receipts, one for an annuity payment of twenty pounds made by Thomas Cadell and signed by Thomas Davies, and the second for ten pounds "for half a years annuity allowed for the Royal Academy" and signed by Susanna Davies.
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