Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    L30/11/224/3
  • Title
    Letter from Jemima Pole-Carew [daughter of Reginald and Jemima, nee Yorke] to Amabel, Lady Lucas, Putney. Sent from Antony. Thanks for attention to Mrs P Carew's request on behalf of poor Mr Collander[?], who is very grateful for so large a donation. 'I do not suppose you would have got money's worth in his drawings. As you observe, six of them is quite enough as specimens. I fear poor man, if he depends on his works for bread, he will be often obliged to beg the assistance of his friends.'
  • Date free text
    30 Nov 1810
  • Production date
    From: 1810 To: 1810
  • Scope and Content
    Mrs Carew did learn to draw from him for several years, but he was not originally a drawing master, but a gentleman by birth, went to India in the military line, made an imprudent marriage and having a taste for drawings, undertook to teach on his return to England. For some time he succeeded in persuading the world that he had made a valuable discovery in 'body colour painting' to avoid the ill smell of oil. But [John?] Laporte cut him out, and he soon declined entirely, and is now left with all his works on his hands and a large family to provide for. 'I do not know who Sir J Murray is, but such a person did marry his daughter and leave his children to be supported by her father.' Papa is still in Town, overwhelmed with public and private business. He goes backward and forward to Richmond Park. Lord Eliot was worse off in being obliged to perform the journey twice in a fortnight. Lady Eliot is now alone at Port Eliot waiting to hear whether he is to return, which he will if he is not required in the House, or whether she is to go to Bath to Mrs [Agneta] Yorke. Papa writes a better account of the poor King. Anxious to hear how the House of Commons behaved last Thursday. Charlotte caught a tremendous cold on first going to Brighton, and has kept to the house ever since, but says she is now better. Harriet has escaped cold but her eyes have not been so well.
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