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Sir Joshua Reynolds
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
352065
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Manuscripts
This bound volume contains Sir Joshua Reynolds' two account books and alphabetical list of sitters for the period from 1755 to 1789. The volume also includes six pieces of manuscript notes (10 p.) slipped into back of volume. This volume is possibly in the hand of an early biographer and dates from the mid to late 19th century.
mssHM 63180
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Manuscripts
Papers of Elizabeth Montagu, chiefly letters, with some manuscripts. The papers deal with literary affairs, personalities, and gossip, including references to current books and plays; social and everyday life of Elizabeth Montagu at her homes at Sandleford Priory, London, Bath, and Turnbridge Wells; her travels to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sandleford, Spa (1763), Paris (1776), and Scotland (1766 and 1770); current political events, including the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, the Seven Years War, the coronation of George III, the John Wilkes affair, and the trial of Warren Hastings; coal mines and mining in Northumberland.
MO 4652