Manuscripts
1775-1779
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Philip Thicknesse letters
Manuscripts
The collection consists almost entirely of letters from Philip Thicknesse to his friend John Cooke of Monmouthshire. Subject matter includes Thicknesse's family life and relations with his wives and children; business and estate affairs, including his lawsuits, management of his Monmouthshire farm at Quoitca, and his houses at Bath; life and society in Bath; travel on the Continent, particularly in France and Spain from 1775 to 1777, and in Belgium in 1782. There are a few references to his own writings and to Thomas Gainsborough.
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1780-1784
Manuscripts
The collection consists almost entirely of letters from Philip Thicknesse to his friend John Cooke of Monmouthshire. Subject matter includes Thicknesse's family life and relations with his wives and children; business and estate affairs, including his lawsuits, management of his Monmouthshire farm at Quoitca, and his houses at Bath; life and society in Bath; travel on the Continent, particularly in France and Spain from 1775 to 1777, and in Belgium in 1782. There are a few references to his own writings and to Thomas Gainsborough.
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1765-1771
Manuscripts
The collection consists almost entirely of letters from Philip Thicknesse to his friend John Cooke of Monmouthshire. Subject matter includes Thicknesse's family life and relations with his wives and children; business and estate affairs, including his lawsuits, management of his Monmouthshire farm at Quoitca, and his houses at Bath; life and society in Bath; travel on the Continent, particularly in France and Spain from 1775 to 1777, and in Belgium in 1782. There are a few references to his own writings and to Thomas Gainsborough.
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1772-1774
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The collection consists almost entirely of letters from Philip Thicknesse to his friend John Cooke of Monmouthshire. Subject matter includes Thicknesse's family life and relations with his wives and children; business and estate affairs, including his lawsuits, management of his Monmouthshire farm at Quoitca, and his houses at Bath; life and society in Bath; travel on the Continent, particularly in France and Spain from 1775 to 1777, and in Belgium in 1782. There are a few references to his own writings and to Thomas Gainsborough.
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1775 December-1779
Manuscripts
A collection of 1,194 items which consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera (1760-1820); the letters are primarily addressed to Edward Jerningham. Also included are miscellaneous notes and compositions, and one piece of verse titled "The queen of diamonds to Miss Jerningham;" of note is a letter from Thomas Jefferson (1789) thanking Jerningham for a copy of "Enthusiasm." This collection of Jerningham's correspondence was drawn upon by Lewis Bettany for his "Edward Jerningham and his friends," (London, 1919); a penciled number at the bottom of the first page of a letter indicates the page in Bettany's book where the letter is printed. Correspondents represented in the collection include, among others: Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lady Mary Beauchamp-Proctor, William Beville, John Henry Colls, Anne Seymour Damer, Antoine Desca, Elizabeth Hervey, Frances Villiers (Countess of Jersey), Anna Riggs Miller, Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, Robert Potter, Anna Seward, Percival Stockdale, William Tasker, William Johnston Temple, Horace Walpole, and Helen Maria Williams.
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The Journal of Cadwallader Colden, Esq. 1776-1779
Manuscripts
This journal kept by Cadwallader Colden II during the American Revolution. It includes the following periods: early 1776 to his arrest and confinement in Kingston jail; August 1776, paroled at his home; December 1776, appearance before the Continental Congress; March 1777, ordered to take the oath of allegiance to the State of New York, charged with committing overt acts of loyalism, sent to fleet prison; September 1777, paroled to Hurley, New York; July 1778, exiled to New York City. While he was living in New York City, he pleaded with state leaders, including Governor George Clinton, for his release, which did not come until 1784.
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