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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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[London, England]. Autograph letter signed, 1 page. Transcribed in Bruce Redford, ed. The Letters of Samuel Johnson (Princeton University Press, 1992), vol. 1: p. 40.
HM 20824
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Copy in the handwriting of Robert Southey, 2 pages. The letter, lacking first few sentences regarding the neglect by an unidentified man of his sister and closing paragraph, is transcribed in Thomas Wright, ed. The Correspondence of William Cowper (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1904), vol. II: pp. 289-90.
HM 20833
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Copy (drawing), 1 page; oval 10 x 7.5 cm. Reference to print: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (1910), vol. II, p. 649, #16.
HM 40961
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Letterpress copy (third person). (1 page)
HM 5640
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Autograph letter signed (third person). (1 page)
HM 5931