Craven announces his plans to depart for Samos to join the Society of Dilettanti's Second Ionian Mission and comments on travel dangers in Asia Minor. Accompanied by: a poem of 80 lines about Chios: "Think not, fair lady, though in a foreign clime...." ACC: 95.10.8 (44.307)
8 p., with address. 19 x 12 cm. Sends a copy of 'The Traveller a Fragment', from Select Pieces in Verse and Prose by John Bowdler, 'one of the finest Fragments I ever met with'.
4 p., with address. 25 x 19 cm. Discusses two of Hoare's portraits, especially the virtues and problems of a new one. Doubts he could like England after Italy.
4 p. 19 x 25 cm. Letter of introduction for Philip Yorke, with a description of his father, Charles Yorke, and of a disastrous event in the new theater at Milan.
3 p., with address. 23 x 19 cm. Repeats comments on new portrait by Hoare. Signora Cosway's singing is "la mania". Likes Venice, especially art and ladies.
4 p., with address. 32 x 21 cm. Rogers describes all the places he has visited, including Vesuvius and Pompeii. He bewails the slowness of the work at Pompeii under the new king.
4 p., with address. 23 x 19 cm. Endorsed by Irwin: Earl of Chesterfield ansd. April 20th N.S. 1749. Printed in Miscellaneous Works, 1779, iv, 349, and in Letters, ed. Lord Mahon, 1845-53, iii, 337.