BIB_ID
128860
Accession number
MA 7859
Creator
Barry, James, 1741-1806.
Display Date
[1791 November].
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 24.6 x 19.9 cm
Notes
Removed from vol. I of the St. Paul's Cathedral collection, a six-volume bound set of letters, portraits and prints related to the history of the cathedral.
Retained draft written on the verso of the address sheet of a letter addressed to him. Only the address sheet is present; the corresponding letter to Barry is not in the Morgan's collection.
Date of writing from The Correspondence of James Barry found online. The introductory note to the published letter indicates that "The Society of Arts had recorded the gift of busts of Benjamin Franklin and Jean-Rodolphe Perronet on 9 November 1791."
Retained draft written on the verso of the address sheet of a letter addressed to him. Only the address sheet is present; the corresponding letter to Barry is not in the Morgan's collection.
Date of writing from The Correspondence of James Barry found online. The introductory note to the published letter indicates that "The Society of Arts had recorded the gift of busts of Benjamin Franklin and Jean-Rodolphe Perronet on 9 November 1791."
Summary
Recommending an appropriate acknowledgement to be made to M. de Lablancherie for his gift of the busts of Dr. Franklin and M. Perronnet; suggesting that "If this matter should be so ordered (as I hope it will,) there will be some gratification in reflecting, that this liberal, honourable & just acknowledgement on the part of the Society, might perhaps at this time afford some consolation to a Man of Genius whose Talents have been long, actively, zealously employed in the general furtherance & circulation of whatever knowledge is interesting to Society, altho, from the present convulsed state of Europe, the exertion of those Talents is suspended, or, what is worse, perhaps mischievously corroding & preying upon the vitality of the tenement in which they are to a great loss of publick thus unhappily pent up," adding, at the bottom of the page, "to the publick detriment thus unhappily pent up" which appears to be his edited version of the previous quoted sentence which ended with a comma.
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