BIB_ID
137185
Accession number
MA 1293.12
Creator
Shaw, John, 1803-1870.
Display Date
1829 Nov. 14.
Credit line
Likely purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 19.4 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs, and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.
The letter is signed "John Shaw Jun."; although his father (also John Shaw) worked on the plans for Newstead Abbey, this letter is apparently being written by the son.
Part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs, and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.
The letter is signed "John Shaw Jun."; although his father (also John Shaw) worked on the plans for Newstead Abbey, this letter is apparently being written by the son.
Provenance
Kaye Dowland.
Summary
Discussing plans for the restoration of Newstead Abbey; commenting on the health of his mother, father, and sister; mentioning that Lord Grantham [Thomas Philip De Grey, Earl De Grey] is "desirous of the Plans of Newstead for Lady De Grey's magnificent collection of modern Architectual Drawings"; remarking that he is "making a reduced set of them for him."
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