BIB_ID
128679
Accession number
MA 3427
Creator
Clarke, James Stanier, 1765?-1834.
Display Date
1807 October 7.
Credit line
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund, 1980.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 20.1 x 32.3 cm
Notes
Clarke gives the place of writing as "Chiddingstone, near Sevenoaks / Kent."
Address panel: "For Egerton Brydges Esqre." Clarke has added his name below (possibly for franking purposes).
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Address panel: "For Egerton Brydges Esqre." Clarke has added his name below (possibly for franking purposes).
See Collection Files for more information.
Provenance
From the Phillipps Collection. Purchased from the dealer H.P. Kraus, 1980 May 7.
Summary
Telling Brydges that he was so busy at Petworth, in addition to suffering "a violent strain in my ancle," that he did not have time to gather material on "Penrose & Hole" (probably Thomas Penrose and Richard Hole) for him; referring Brydges to a "Mr. Dunster," who has letters by Hole; mentioning that he has been working hard on his Life of Admiral Lord Nelson and that the book is "now at Press at [Thomas] Bensley's"; suggesting that, when Brydges is in London, he go "see the paintings at Cadells"; adding "I should gladly receive any remarks or hints respecting the best mode of writing the Life"; asking for "some account of [Robert] Dodsley the Poet & the extracts I sent"; asking also who the real author of "Joe Miller" was (possibly referring to Joe Miller's Jests) and when the first edition was published.
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