Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Report on the correspondence of Sir William Chambers
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Pages : 44
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Sir William Chambers Correspondence
Author: Sir William Chambers
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The Correspondence of James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo
Author: James Boswell
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030025038X
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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This volume, tenth in the Research Correspondence Series of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, documents the long friendship between Boswell and Sir William Forbes This volume, tenth in the Research Correspondence Series of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, collects the letters exchanged between lawyer, diarist, and biographer James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, eminent Scottish banker, civic improver, philanthropist, literary and cultural patron, and lay leader of Edinburgh's "English Episcopal" community. Forbes served as Boswell's most valued Scottish advisor, to whom he would often turn for personal, financial, moral, and religious guidance, and whom he would name executor of his estate and co-guardian of his children. The volume includes a total of 111 comprehensively annotated letters, few of which have appeared previously in print, between Forbes and Boswell and other correspondents. It illuminates in particular the period in which Boswell moved from Edinburgh to London and wrote his major books, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson and The Life of Samuel Johnson.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030025038X
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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This volume, tenth in the Research Correspondence Series of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, documents the long friendship between Boswell and Sir William Forbes This volume, tenth in the Research Correspondence Series of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, collects the letters exchanged between lawyer, diarist, and biographer James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, eminent Scottish banker, civic improver, philanthropist, literary and cultural patron, and lay leader of Edinburgh's "English Episcopal" community. Forbes served as Boswell's most valued Scottish advisor, to whom he would often turn for personal, financial, moral, and religious guidance, and whom he would name executor of his estate and co-guardian of his children. The volume includes a total of 111 comprehensively annotated letters, few of which have appeared previously in print, between Forbes and Boswell and other correspondents. It illuminates in particular the period in which Boswell moved from Edinburgh to London and wrote his major books, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson and The Life of Samuel Johnson.
Letter by Charles de Wailly to Sir William Chambers, 13 October 1763
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Compliments Chambers on his designs for the gardens and buildings at Kew; his own career was not prospering since he had turned down the professorship of architecture in Russia; asks Chambers' opinion on a possible move to London.
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Pages : 3
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Compliments Chambers on his designs for the gardens and buildings at Kew; his own career was not prospering since he had turned down the professorship of architecture in Russia; asks Chambers' opinion on a possible move to London.
Letter by Sir William Taylor to Sir William Chambers, 11 Nov 1783
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Presents his compliments and says that `the Memorialist' would have been satisfied with adequate compensation [probably relates to the reform of the Office of Works in 1782 in which Taylor's positions as Master Mason and Deputy Surveyor were abolished].
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Presents his compliments and says that `the Memorialist' would have been satisfied with adequate compensation [probably relates to the reform of the Office of Works in 1782 in which Taylor's positions as Master Mason and Deputy Surveyor were abolished].
Correspondence Between Oliver Goldsmith and Sir William Chambers
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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Sir William Chambers
Author: John Harris
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300069405
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Courtauld Gallery, London 10 October 1996-5 January 1997, Natiobalmuseum, Stockholm 20 February-20 April 1997.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300069405
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Courtauld Gallery, London 10 October 1996-5 January 1997, Natiobalmuseum, Stockholm 20 February-20 April 1997.
Transcript of a letter by Sir William Chambers to Sir Joshua Reynolds concerning Wick House, Richmond, ca. 1975
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Pages : 4
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Transcript of item (S-MR/1/9/1) with short biographical notes on Sir William Chambers (1723-1796) and George Colman (1732-1794).
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Pages : 4
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Transcript of item (S-MR/1/9/1) with short biographical notes on Sir William Chambers (1723-1796) and George Colman (1732-1794).
Letters by Kenton Couse to Sir William Chambers, 1782
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On Edmund Burke's bill, as it related to the reorganisation of the Office of Works.
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On Edmund Burke's bill, as it related to the reorganisation of the Office of Works.
Papers of Sir William Chambers, 1752-1795
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CHA.1 Lecture notes and miscellaneous notes by Sir William Chambers.
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CHA.1 Lecture notes and miscellaneous notes by Sir William Chambers.