Accession number
PML 146382, leaf 079
Creator
Howard, Henry, 1769-1847.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Item mounted on leaf 79 of v. 6 of an extra-illustrated copy of D.E. William's The life and correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence (London : Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831).
Henry Howard was secretary to the Royal Academy.
Letter written on mourning stationery and addressed from the Royal Academy.
Henry Howard was secretary to the Royal Academy.
Letter written on mourning stationery and addressed from the Royal Academy.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.7 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Explaining that a "severe affliction which has just befallen the Academy" (i.e. the death of Sir Thomas Lawrence) has delayed a response to Magrath's request on behalf of the Committee of the [Boston] Athenaeum for the loan of a statue of Demosthenes for the purpose of making a cast of it to adorn their new quarters and conveying the decision of the Council of the Royal Academy who have assented to the loan.
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