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RefNoMC/15/155
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Vernon Heath, Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn Street, to Herbert Rix
Date11 March 1891
DescriptionHeath describes the price he has put on the Sir Joseph Whitworth portrait as 'reasonable', and disucsses what it cost him seven years ago. Heath would like the portrait to become the property of the Royal Society, and his intention was to present it to the Royal Society. However due to 'heavy losses through the dishonesty of the managing director of a company' he was connected with.
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA2851Whitworth; Sir; Joseph (1803 - 1887)1803 - 1887
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