c. 1790-1845
Copies of, and extracts from letters from the
Rev. Samuel Reynolds [father of Joshua Reynolds], Plymouth, to Charles Cutcliff, attorney, Bedford [period 1740-45] about Joshua's being apprenticed to Henry Hudson and his progress with him; newpaper cuttings relating to to Reynolds and the Royal Academy, including the Bonomi affair, the appointment of
James Boswell as Secretary for Foreign Correspondence and an obituary of Reynolds, 1790-92; correspondence from
B. R. Haydon to
Mrs Gwatkin, 1844-45; and wrappers for the documents.