18 letters to Joseph Barrett, a goldsmith in Cheapside, 15 of which were written by his brother Richard Barrett between 1715 and 1720. The two earliest letters are from Tewkesbury, announcing riots in Worcester and Richard's intention of going to Scotland. The next letters, written from Paris between February and June of 1719, describe the sights of Paris and Versailles; clothing styles and customs of the French; High Mass at Notre Dame celebrated by the Cardinal de Noailles; and some political gossip, including the illness of the duchesse de Berry and the first reports of the marriage between the Young Pretender and Maria Clementina, Princess Sobieski, at which "the Jacobites here flatter themselves with...Hope." and Richard's letters from Leiden, written between October 1719 and April 1720, contain his impressions of the city; news of his health and financial situation; his desire to "take his degree" in medicine there; and his investment advice to his brother during the "prodigious rise in Stocks" on the London and Amsterdam exchanges in April 1720. The collection also contains two letters to Joseph Barrett from Anthony Bewly, describing Amsterdam and his business there, and one from Elizabeth Bostock, containing family news.
Subject (Geographic):
Leiden (Netherlands)--Description and travel and Paris (France)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Bostock, Elizabeth
Subject (Topic):
Jacobite Rebellion, 1715, Jacobites, and South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720
Andrew Ross (1773-1812), Army officer who suppressed the 1802 mutiny of several regiments at Gibraltar; probably appointed Governor of Essequibo and Demerara in 1807 or 1808. He retired to Madeira for his health in 1809, but returned to service in the Peninsular War and died at the siege of Carthagena on September 26, 1812.
Subject (Geographic):
Caribbean Area--History, Cartagena (Spain)--History, Great Britain--Colonies--Administration, Great Britain--Foreign relations--Spain, and Spain--Foreign relations--Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833, Inciarte, José Felipe, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Ross, Andrew,--1773-1812
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Campaigns--Caribbean Area, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Campaigns--Spain, and Peninsular War, 1807-1814--Campaigns--Spain
18 letters to Joseph Barrett, a goldsmith in Cheapside, 15 of which were written by his brother Richard Barrett between 1715 and 1720. The two earliest letters are from Tewkesbury, announcing riots in Worcester and Richard's intention of going to Scotland. The next letters, written from Paris between February and June of 1719, describe the sights of Paris and Versailles; clothing styles and customs of the French; High Mass at Notre Dame celebrated by the Cardinal de Noailles; and some political gossip, including the illness of the duchesse de Berry and the first reports of the marriage between the Young Pretender and Maria Clementina, Princess Sobieski, at which "the Jacobites here flatter themselves with...Hope." and Richard's letters from Leiden, written between October 1719 and April 1720, contain his impressions of the city; news of his health and financial situation; his desire to "take his degree" in medicine there; and his investment advice to his brother during the "prodigious rise in Stocks" on the London and Amsterdam exchanges in April 1720. The collection also contains two letters to Joseph Barrett from Anthony Bewly, describing Amsterdam and his business there, and one from Elizabeth Bostock, containing family news.
Subject (Geographic):
Leiden (Netherlands)--Description and travel and Paris (France)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Barrett, Richard,--fl. 1720
Subject (Topic):
Jacobite Rebellion, 1715, Jacobites, and South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720
18 letters to Joseph Barrett, a goldsmith in Cheapside, 15 of which were written by his brother Richard Barrett between 1715 and 1720. The two earliest letters are from Tewkesbury, announcing riots in Worcester and Richard's intention of going to Scotland. The next letters, written from Paris between February and June of 1719, describe the sights of Paris and Versailles; clothing styles and customs of the French; High Mass at Notre Dame celebrated by the Cardinal de Noailles; and some political gossip, including the illness of the duchesse de Berry and the first reports of the marriage between the Young Pretender and Maria Clementina, Princess Sobieski, at which "the Jacobites here flatter themselves with...Hope." and Richard's letters from Leiden, written between October 1719 and April 1720, contain his impressions of the city; news of his health and financial situation; his desire to "take his degree" in medicine there; and his investment advice to his brother during the "prodigious rise in Stocks" on the London and Amsterdam exchanges in April 1720. The collection also contains two letters to Joseph Barrett from Anthony Bewly, describing Amsterdam and his business there, and one from Elizabeth Bostock, containing family news.
Subject (Geographic):
Leiden (Netherlands)--Description and travel and Paris (France)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Barrett, Richard,--fl. 1720
Subject (Topic):
Jacobite Rebellion, 1715, Jacobites, and South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720
18 letters to Joseph Barrett, a goldsmith in Cheapside, 15 of which were written by his brother Richard Barrett between 1715 and 1720. The two earliest letters are from Tewkesbury, announcing riots in Worcester and Richard's intention of going to Scotland. The next letters, written from Paris between February and June of 1719, describe the sights of Paris and Versailles; clothing styles and customs of the French; High Mass at Notre Dame celebrated by the Cardinal de Noailles; and some political gossip, including the illness of the duchesse de Berry and the first reports of the marriage between the Young Pretender and Maria Clementina, Princess Sobieski, at which "the Jacobites here flatter themselves with...Hope." and Richard's letters from Leiden, written between October 1719 and April 1720, contain his impressions of the city; news of his health and financial situation; his desire to "take his degree" in medicine there; and his investment advice to his brother during the "prodigious rise in Stocks" on the London and Amsterdam exchanges in April 1720. The collection also contains two letters to Joseph Barrett from Anthony Bewly, describing Amsterdam and his business there, and one from Elizabeth Bostock, containing family news.
Subject (Geographic):
Leiden (Netherlands)--Description and travel and Paris (France)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Barrett, Richard,--fl. 1720
Subject (Topic):
Jacobite Rebellion, 1715, Jacobites, and South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720
