Reference code
LAW/1/171
Title
Joseph Farington, to Thomas Lawrence, at Sir Francis Baring's, Stratton Park, near Winchester
Date
17 Nov 1807
Level
Item
Extent & medium
1 piece
Content Description
He provides a general statement of Lawrence's debt, £20,569; discusses an arrangement with
Mr. Angerstein relating to pictures painted and loans lent; he goes on to detail various aspects of Lawrence's finances, Lawrence should stress to
Baring the manner in which he built up such debt, his family's claims, his inexperience of finance, his recourse to the Law and that he did not generate it through gaming and licentious behaviour.
Bibliography
Partly published in Letter-Bag, Layard, 1906, p.54.