BIB_ID
414550
Accession number
MA 1581.185
Creator
Smith, William, 1730-1819.
Display Date
Bury St. Edmunds, England, 1818 July 10.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1959.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.8 x 18.8 cm
Notes
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. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Smith) 8.
Address panel with postmarks to "Sir George Beaumont / Coleorton / Ashby de la Zouch."
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Smith) 8.
Address panel with postmarks to "Sir George Beaumont / Coleorton / Ashby de la Zouch."
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Complaining that [John Jackson] is late in arriving for his appointment with him; saying "I find you are mistaken in one part of your Friends Talents, & that He is a grand Humbugger, a most Atheistical break-promise, & no less eminent in his Skill as a Painter, than notorious for his disregard to his appointments. Has He induc'd you to believe he was coming to Bury to take a portrait of my Block?;" referring to two gentlemen Jackson will call on in Bury; adding "He has the high commendations of Both these Gentleman, & the great Qualifications of a great artist, as to Skill in his profession & disregard to his punctuality - As to me, I have given him over & shall no longer expect him;" saying he is sorry to hear that Lady Beaumont is not well; adding "If this Genius should arrive, you shall know immediately - but as I suppose He is not quite a Magus, or has the rapidity of the Irishman's Bird to be in two places at the same time, I shall not wait dinner."
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