BIB_ID
196184
Accession number
MA 14051
Creator
Dennistoun, James, 1803-1855, sender.
Display Date
Florence, Italy, 1843 July 20.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 25.5 x 20.5 cm
Notes
Written from "4566 Via Melarancio."
Postmark with seal; address panel reads, "Revd. J.H. Gray / Bolsover C[as]tle / Chesterfield"; struck out in ink and readdressed, "Sir M. Cholmeley Brt / Easton Colsterworth."
Postmark with seal; address panel reads, "Revd. J.H. Gray / Bolsover C[as]tle / Chesterfield"; struck out in ink and readdressed, "Sir M. Cholmeley Brt / Easton Colsterworth."
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Describing his travels in Italy and his researches into the history of the Dukes of Urbino, with accounts of their various accommodations, the weather in Florence, news of mutual friends and acquaintances and other English travelers remaining in the city, visits to libraries and art galleries, his satisfaction with the house they have rented in Florence, the general immorality of fashionable Florentine society, purchases of antique coins he has made in Italy, news and gossip touching upon political and religious matters, with Dennistoun's reflections on the character of the Scottish politician Sir George Sinclair.
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