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Draft of a letter

Draft of a letter:

  • pencil text on paper
  • loose
  • 28.3 x 8.0 cm
  • [text]:

'My Lord Duke
I inclose according to your request
the three italian drawings and three 2
modifications of three designs as well as / and one as a substitute for the arched chimney piece
a drawing of the chimney piece at Syon
with its modification. If your Grace
approves of Syon modification and you / of any of them(?) the working the working drawings could be made either here or in Rome from / the sketches sufficiently indicate the design / the small drawings
desire to send to Italy a cast of the / the details

new(?) figure of the boy and the mouldings
I would be undertake superintending the casting
of the boy and the mouldings'

Design for a ceiling

Design for a ceiling:

  • inked pencil sketch with watercolour (green and orange) on paper
  • loose
  • 7.3 x 11.4 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Design for a Ceiling' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'LONDON W.C / E 0 / AP 18 / 74' (ink stamp)

Letter

Letter:

  • printed and ink text on paper
  • loose
  • 11.5 x 18.5 cm
  • [text]:

'Sir John Soane's Museum,
13, Lincoln's Inn Fields,
11 April 1866
On the principal face of the
Medal is a figure of Civilisation,
habited in like Minerva, in
the act of prescuting two Wreaths
or crowns, one, for the native the
other for Colonial produce.
Below is the figure of a
Canoe, and round the margin
is to be written NEW ZEALAND
EXHIBITION 1865. On'

Letter (continuation)

Letter (continuation):
-ink text on paper
-loose
-11.5 x 18.5 cm
-[text]
'the reverse is the figure
of the Apteryx and a Wreath
to be composed of the plants
indigenous to the country.'

Printed note

Printed note:

  • printed text on paper
  • loose
  • 7.3 x 11.4 cm
  • [text]: 'Business Meeting at 7.30 - Free. / H. SHARPE, / Hon. Sec. pro tem. / APRIL, 1874.'

Design for Tyne Sailors' Home medal and chain

Design for Tyne Sailors' Home medal and chain:

  • ink sketch on paper
  • loose
  • 11.5 x 17.7 cm
  • [on sketch] 'TYNE / SAILORS / HOME' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Iron ship cable is / always formed with a / Cast iron Stud to prevent / the larger link from / collapsing when strained / thus' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Stud.' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Newcastle / a tower / antique / Emblem / of a City' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Arms of / N. Shields not / known / antique city Embm' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'South / Shields / not / known' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Gateshead / Goat's-head / thus.' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'The arms of these two / towns may be had of the / magistrates clerk / who will give and impression / of the Seal on / application' (ink note)

Fragment of letter

Fragment of letter:

  • ink text on paper
  • loose
  • 6.4 x 3.3 cm
  • [text]:
    '... good meat and (?) (?)
    ... wise the day before their
    ... [ex]cellent cold roast beef whether
    ...arked difference in the quality
    ...(?) (?) (?) a letter (?)'
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