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4 ALS to his uncle, Sir Robert Clayton
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4 ALS to his uncle, Sir Robert Clayton, 20 May - 7 July 1698.
Publication
Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Notes
AMDigital Reference: Osborn MSS F3320
Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Yale University
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Summary
The first letter discusses an unsuccessful attempt to sail to Sicily from Naples. The other letters were written from Rome and mention travel elsewhere in Italy; the last letter gives a description of the city with reference to geography, population, the Tiber, antiquities, the Pantheon, and Saint Peter's Basilica. Typical of other accounts from the period, Clayton gives the measurements of Saint Peter's. In each letter, he conveys the compliments of a Mr Moll, presumably his tutor (possibly the cartographer Herman Moll).
Variant and related titles
Four ALS to his uncle, Sir Robert Clayton
Grand tour.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 25, 2023
Series
The Grand Tour
Subjects
Genre/Form
Personal correspondence
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Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.
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