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3 ALS to Arthur Smyth, Archbishop of Dublin
Title
3 ALS to Arthur Smyth, Archbishop of Dublin, January - 2 March 1733.
Publication
Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Notes
AMDigital Reference: Osborn MSS F17355
Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Yale University
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Summary
Written while Spence was accompanying Charles Sackville, (Later) 2nd Duke of Dorset, on his Grand Tour, these letters describe many subjects including Pagliarini, a bookseller in Rome; Andrea Morini, a thieving servant; the Jesuit missionary Jean-Francois Foucquet; Athanasius Kircher and his collections; Carnival; statue casts and copies by Michel (Mitchell?) and Andrea Rossi; Freemasonry and foundation of the Florentine Lodge, with notes on the commemorative medal produced by Johann Lorenz Natter; Virgil prints on sale at Palazzo Massimo; epitaphs and inscriptions at S. Lucia, Venice, in Loreto, and in Rome. Spence also notes many of the Englishmen then in Rome: Trumball [possibly George Turnball]; the Jacobite Marmaduke Constable, 4th Bart.; Peter Stephen Goddard; Sir Hugh Smithson (afterwards) Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland; James John Frohlich (or Frolich), later the governor of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich; Charles Feilding; Thomas Shaw; Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt.
Variant and related titles
Three ALS to Arthur Smyth, Archbishop of Dublin
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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