BIB_ID
413687
Accession number
MA 1581.49
Creator
Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829
Display Date
Place not identified, 1820 December 9.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.5 x 18.7 cm
Notes
The signature has been cut away and some text on the address panel is missing.
Address panel with intact seal and postmarks: "Sir Geo Beaumont / Coleorton / near Ashby de l / Leicester."
The context for Beaumont's letter and this response may have been Davy's election as president of the Royal Society on November 30, 1820.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall, and to other members of the Beaumont family.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Davy) 2.
Address panel with intact seal and postmarks: "Sir Geo Beaumont / Coleorton / near Ashby de l / Leicester."
The context for Beaumont's letter and this response may have been Davy's election as president of the Royal Society on November 30, 1820.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall, and to other members of the Beaumont family.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Davy) 2.
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Sending his "earnest thanks" to Lord and Lady Beaumont for "the kind expression of your feelings"; referring to their long friendship and saying "I am doubly happy in my success since it gives pleasure to my friends"; saying that he had heard that they were going to Italy, and that he thinks they were wise to not proceed with this idea: "in these revolutionary times you ought not to run any risque for a thousand reasons: & the Roman & Neapolitan states somewhat dangerous at all times with hostile armies entering them are no fit place for the man of taste & genius [...] the impressions derived from the works of Art could no longer be received as they ought to be."
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