Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Second Day CH tee] 405 407 any steps but what I think will tend to advance either my reputation or fortune: s.. e6c, father’s portrait of the Marchioness Townshend, for which 100 guineas was to be paid (3) or 10th, 1802, to Jack Girtin, 441, Strand, London: He wishes to know whether Howard is or is not painting the view of Paris and what sort of thing it is likely to be, but not to let the inquiry be known. He says that the sketches he makes are done from the windows of Hackney Coaches. I altered my plan directly I got your letter for I had then begun to sketch on a large scale and to colour on the spot, thus would have been very tedious. But now I am for getting the best views I can & merely sketches, ... to AP EEE OF CROAT RARITY: Other Properties. the Assignment of the Copyright of the Second Edition of the ‘ Rambler,” to Edward Cave * who has printed for me an Editione in folio of a Periodical Work called the Rambler & is now about to reprint Seventy Numbers of the same Work in Twelves,” pro- vided that “the Names of John Payne and Joseph Bouquet be inserted in the new Edition, as the persons for whom the said Edition is printed,” signed ‘Sam! Johnson’ & witnessed by his friend Dr. J. Hawksworth, a document of great interest addressed to King James I: In the behalfe of all your Hignes loveinge subjects ... givinge therein the scope of those Pampflittes which I did desire mighte be published for every eare to heare and hearte to understand the benefitte and goodness of the cause which I doe leave to their Lops, deepe Judgment to relate; and your Maties high censure ... Your Matie commanded an exquisite Carver of Modwells, should be sent me of whom yet I never heard, but only one came whom I found not expert and therefore unnecessary (sic) for that use. SY AN rie](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31640667_0061.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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