[Letter: Richard Barrett to Joseph Barrett]
- Published/Created:
- Leiden
1720 April 16 - Physical Description:
- 0.91 linear feet (1 box)
1 folder (1 letter) ; 24 cm. - Abstract:
- 18 letters to Joseph Barrett, a goldsmith in Cheapside, 15 of which were written by his brother Richard Barrett between 1715 and 1720. The two earliest letters are from Tewkesbury, announcing riots in Worcester and Richard's intention of going to Scotland. The next letters, written from Paris between February and June of 1719, describe the sights of Paris and Versailles; clothing styles and customs of the French; High Mass at Notre Dame celebrated by the Cardinal de Noailles; and some political gossip, including the illness of the duchesse de Berry and the first reports of the marriage between the Young Pretender and Maria Clementina, Princess Sobieski, at which "the Jacobites here flatter themselves with...Hope."
Richard's letters from Leiden, written between October 1719 and April 1720, contain his impressions of the city; news of his health and financial situation; his desire to "take his degree" in medicine there; and his investment advice to his brother during the "prodigious rise in Stocks" on the London and Amsterdam exchanges in April 1720. The collection also contains two letters to Joseph Barrett from Anthony Bewly, describing Amsterdam and his business there, and one from Elizabeth Bostock, containing family news. - Associated Names:
- Barrett, Richard,--fl. 1720 [Correspondent]
- Topics:
- Jacobite Rebellion, 1715
Jacobites
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720 - Topics:
- Leiden (Netherlands)--Description and travel
Paris (France)--Description and travel - Topics:
- Barrett, Richard,--fl. 1720
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Autographs
letters (correspondence) (AAT) - Format:
- Text
- Rights:
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Access Restrictions:
- Public
- Source Creator:
- Barrett, Joseph, goldsmith
Bewly, Anthony
Bostock, Elizabeth - Source Title:
- Letters to Joseph Barrett, 1715-1723.
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 89
- Box:
- Box 1
- Folder:
- Folder 14
- Orbis Record:
- 6766949
- Yale Collection:
- Beinecke Library
- Digital Collection:
- James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection
- oid pointer:
- 11009763
- Citation:
- Letters to Joseph Barrett. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
- Extent of digitization:
- Complete work digitized.
- OID:
- 11009710
- PID:
- digcoll:3951158
