Manuscript, in Walpole's hand, containing primarily the beginnings and endings of various sections of the memoirs of political characters and events during the reign of King George II. The focus of the collection, however, is on the drawings and engraved headpieces and tailpieces which appear on these pages. These include a pen drawing by Richard Bentley of Walpole presenting the work to Democritus, with his villa at Strawberry Hill behind him; the head of George II by Johann Muntz, set in a headpiece designed by Bentley; and engravings of William Murray; Henry Pelham; Thomas Pelham-Holles; and Archibald Campbell, many also set in pieces drawn by Bentley. The collection also contains a pencil drawing of Henry Lord Holland, with the annotation, "Sr H. Reynolds pinxt"; an appendix explaining the engravings; and a newspaper notice of the death of William Stanhope, Earl of Harrington
Alternative Title:
Memoirs of King George II.
Description:
In English., Available on microfilm, and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bentley, R. 1708-1782. (Richard),, Campbell, Archibald, 1691-1756., George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760., Harrington, William Stanhope, Earl of, approximately 1690-1756., Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774., Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., Müntz, Jean-Henri, 1727-1798., Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768., Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Amelia, Princess, daughter of George II, King of Great Britain, 1710-1786
Call Number:
LWL Mss Vol. 14
Image Count:
81
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 125 primarily lighthearted and satirical poems and songs. Most of the entries are on the subject of love, drinking, gossip, and the disappointments of marriage; many include pastoral scenes; and most of the songs make reference to the name of the tune to which they are to be sung. The volume contains: The vicar of Bray, a poem satirizing religious and political events from Charles II to George I; another poem "to the tune of King John" satirizing George I and such political figures as Charles Spencer, Earl Sunderland and James, Lord Stanhope; as well as several satirical songs on the Italian singers Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni, including one sung "to the tune of 'Oh London is a fine town." Other entries include: The bush aboon Tranquair by Robert Crawford; Sung by a fop just come from France; and The Sussex toast, a song
Description:
Incomplete manuscript, pagination begins with p. 9., On penultimate leaf: 1744., On last page, in same hand: Princess Amelia's book., Index at end of manuscript., Pencilled note inside front cover: Not in Prs. Amelia's hand., Binding: full calf; blind-tooled decoration., Princess Amelia (1711-1786), daughter of Georg August (1683-1760), electoral prince of Hanover (after 1727 elector of Hanover and King George II of Great Britain), and his wife, Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1683-1737). Her full names were Amelia Sophia Eleonora., and In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Amelia, Princess, daughter of George II, King of Great Britain, 1710-1786., Bordoni, Faustina, 1700-1781., Cuzzoni, Francesca, 1696-1778., Stanhope, James Stanhope, Earl, 1673-1721, Sunderland, Charles Spencer, Earl of, 1674-1722, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of 51 letters from Delany to her friend, Mary (Hamilton) Dickenson; several of them have been annotated by Dickenson. Some of the letters are in Delany's hand; others are in the hand of her niece Georgina Mary Anne Port and other secretaries. The letters contain primarily matters of routine correspondence, including invitations to tea; numerous references to Miss Hamilton's enviable proximity to the Queen and Delany's delight with the reception of a locket containing a lock of the Queen's hair; and inquiries and updates about the health of various acquaintances. Occasionally Delany sends her artwork to Miss Hamilton, and on June 22, 1785, she sends her congratulations on Miss Hamilton's marriage to John Dickenson. The collection also includes one letter to "Sally Sandford" asking her to entreat Delany's godson to visit Mrs. Dickenson
Description:
Mary Delany (1700-1788), courtier and artist, married Alexander Pendarves (1660-1725) in 1718. After his death in 1725, she lived in London, going to court functions, the opera, and the theater. She made many important friendships during this time, with whom she would carry on an extensive correspondence. In 1743, she married Patrick Delany (1685/6-1768) and moved to Dublin. When he died in May 1768, she returned to London, and in 1774 she began her so-called paper mosaics of flowers and plants; she had produced almost a thousand pages by 1784. She is also known for her correspondence with her family and her friends between 1725 and 1788, which was published by Lady Llanover in 1861-2., In English., Available on microfilm, Written on front cover: list of contents, which includes items no longer in the manuscript., Pasted into front cover: dealer's description of manuscript., and Binding: half calf over marbled boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Delany, Mrs. 1700-1788. (Mary),, Delany, Mrs. 1700-1788 (Mary),, and Dickenson, Mary Hamilton, 1756-1816.
Subject (Topic):
Letters, Women authors, Court and courtiers, and Social life and customs
Signed note in Horace Walpole's hand to his friend Richard Bull, in which Walpole mentions the depiction of his Marc Anthony medal in the second edition of Pinkerton's An essay on medals. Walpole also writes that he is sending along to Bull a copy of the plate in question
Description:
In English., Dated approximately by the reference to the second edition of Pinkerton's An essay on medals, 1789. See: Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence., Mounted on page 110 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., Mounted beside the top half of the plate mentioned in the note, probably the impression sent by Walpole to Bull., and For further information, consult library staff.
Manuscript note in Richard Bull's hand that relates how a collection of Maria Sibylla Merian's drawings came into his possession. Merian's place and year of birth are also noted, as is her great ability for drawing insects, reptiles, and other natural objects
Description:
In English., Date supplied by cataloger based on the year of Richard Bull's death., Formerly page 4 of an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Holograph of a collection of notes and personal memoranda. The volume begins with a description of a dream, dated August 1840, in which she imagines she is with child, from which she awakes in tears, recalling that she has never possessed either husband or child, and has long survived that "Friend" who had been such a comfort to her. Following this recollection and dated 9 May 1842, she reminisces about her past vigor of body and mind, including extraordinary sense of sight and hearing, and notes how these senses are diminishing with age; she also mentions her quickness of mind which was nurtured by those to whom she was devoted. The volume concludes with a brief essay titled The apocalypse, which analyzes the Book of Revelation
Description:
Mary Berry (1763-1852), author, was born at Stanwick, Yorkshire. She and her sister Agnes began a close friendship with Horace Walpole in 1788, who spoke of them as his "twin wives." He established the sisters at Teddington, in 1789, and two years later offered them the use of his own secondary residence, Little Strawberry Hill. Berry became engaged to General Charles O'Hara (c.1740-1802) about October 1795, though the couple separated in 1796. In 1824 the sisters took up residence in Curzon Street, where they established a salon frequented by many prominent figures in society; Berry's acquaintances included William Thackeray, Maria Edgeworth, and Madame de Staël. Her literary productions include the comedy Fashionable Friends; A comparative view of the social life of England and France from the Restoration of Charles the Second to the French Revolution (1828) and its sequel Social Life in England and France from the French Revolution in 1789 to that of July 1830 (1831); and an edition of the Works of Horace Walpole (1798)., In English., Binding: cardboard covers. Written on cover: MB. 1839., and For further information, consult library staff.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of excerpts of letters, in four volumes, from Mary Berry to Damer, transcribed and edited by Damer. The notes refer primarily to their passionate friendship and confidence in each other; their ill health, both mental and physical; and introspective commentary upon the reasons for their melancholy moods. Few of the entries are dated, and mutual acquaintances are left unnamed or else mentioned by initials only. Berry describes their friendship as having "become such a part of myself, or rather of something much dearer than myself, that I can neither live without it, nor dissatisfied with it, nor with the idea of ever being deprived of it." In Vol. 2, she mentions she has waited all day for her correspondent to visit her, having hoped that each carriage passing by will stop at her door. Elsewhere, she complains that her friend is leaving for Tours without her and of feeling "continual pains in my head, restless nights & miserable feels of weakness & langour." Other excerpts address Berry's thoughts on William Fawkener, Damer's suitor; Damer's persecution by the press; a crisis in their friendship at the end of July 1794 resulting in Berry's desire to distance herself from Damer socially, and then her decision to weather out the public attacks on their relationship; and Berry's secret courtship by General Charles O'Hara and its disintegration
Description:
Anne Seymour (Conway) Damer (1749-1828), sculptor and author, was born on 8 November 1749, the only child of Field-Marshal Hon. Henry Seymour Conway (1719-1795), and his wife, Caroline Bruce, Lady Ailesbury (1721-1803), the daughter of John, fourth duke of Argyll. In 1767 she married John Damer, the son of Lord Milton, later the 1st Earl of Dorchester. They separated after seven years, and he died by suicide in 1776. Her artistic career developed during her widowhood, though the development of her youthful interest in sculpture is credited to her father's secretary, David Hume, and to the encouragement of Horace Walpole, who was her guardian during her parent's frequent trips abroad; in 1789, Walpole introduced Damer to Mary Berry (1763-1852), with whom she developed a passionate and lasting friendship. At his death, Walpole bequeathed her Strawberry Hill as his executor and residuary legatee. Damer exhibited 32 works at the Royal Academy and produced keystone sculptures for the bridge at Henley-on-Thames, a 10-foot statue of Apollo, now destroyed, for the frontage of Drury Lane theatre, and two bas-reliefs for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery. Damer also wrote one published novel, Belmour (1801)., In English., Available on microfilm, Available as pdfs, The original letters, from which these excerpts are transcribed, have apparently not survived., Notebooks are numbered on the front covers and dated on the inside front covers., Vol. 1 includes a sketch of a tree., and Binding: cardboard covers.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Berry, Agnes, 1764-1852., Berry, Mary, 1763-1852., Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828., Fawkener, William., and O'Hara, Charles, 1740-1802.
Subject (Topic):
Female friendship, Nobility, Social life and customs, Women, and Conduct of life
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of excerpts of letters, in four volumes, from Mary Berry to Damer, transcribed and edited by Damer. The notes refer primarily to their passionate friendship and confidence in each other; their ill health, both mental and physical; and introspective commentary upon the reasons for their melancholy moods. Few of the entries are dated, and mutual acquaintances are left unnamed or else mentioned by initials only. Berry describes their friendship as having "become such a part of myself, or rather of something much dearer than myself, that I can neither live without it, nor dissatisfied with it, nor with the idea of ever being deprived of it." In Vol. 2, she mentions she has waited all day for her correspondent to visit her, having hoped that each carriage passing by will stop at her door. Elsewhere, she complains that her friend is leaving for Tours without her and of feeling "continual pains in my head, restless nights & miserable feels of weakness & langour." Other excerpts address Berry's thoughts on William Fawkener, Damer's suitor; Damer's persecution by the press; a crisis in their friendship at the end of July 1794 resulting in Berry's desire to distance herself from Damer socially, and then her decision to weather out the public attacks on their relationship; and Berry's secret courtship by General Charles O'Hara and its disintegration
Description:
Anne Seymour (Conway) Damer (1749-1828), sculptor and author, was born on 8 November 1749, the only child of Field-Marshal Hon. Henry Seymour Conway (1719-1795), and his wife, Caroline Bruce, Lady Ailesbury (1721-1803), the daughter of John, fourth duke of Argyll. In 1767 she married John Damer, the son of Lord Milton, later the 1st Earl of Dorchester. They separated after seven years, and he died by suicide in 1776. Her artistic career developed during her widowhood, though the development of her youthful interest in sculpture is credited to her father's secretary, David Hume, and to the encouragement of Horace Walpole, who was her guardian during her parent's frequent trips abroad; in 1789, Walpole introduced Damer to Mary Berry (1763-1852), with whom she developed a passionate and lasting friendship. At his death, Walpole bequeathed her Strawberry Hill as his executor and residuary legatee. Damer exhibited 32 works at the Royal Academy and produced keystone sculptures for the bridge at Henley-on-Thames, a 10-foot statue of Apollo, now destroyed, for the frontage of Drury Lane theatre, and two bas-reliefs for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery. Damer also wrote one published novel, Belmour (1801)., In English., Available on microfilm, Available as pdfs, The original letters, from which these excerpts are transcribed, have apparently not survived., Notebooks are numbered on the front covers and dated on the inside front covers., Vol. 1 includes a sketch of a tree., and Binding: cardboard covers.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Berry, Agnes, 1764-1852., Berry, Mary, 1763-1852., Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828., Fawkener, William., and O'Hara, Charles, 1740-1802.
Subject (Topic):
Female friendship, Nobility, Social life and customs, Women, and Conduct of life