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This selection of letters sent by Peter Collinson between 1725 and 1768 includes letters sent to Albrecht von Haller, Alexander Colden, Arthur Dobbs, Benjamin Cook, Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Gale, Benjamin Smithurst, Cadwallader Colden, Carl Linnaeus, Carlo Allioni, Caspar Wettstein, Charles Lennox (3rd Duke of Richmond), Charles Lyttelton (Bishop of Carlisle), Charles Wager, Christopher Jacob Trew, Edward Cave, Edward Wright, Emmanuel Mendes Da Costa, George Parker (2nd Earl Macclesfield), Gregory Demidoff, Henrietta Maria Goldsborough, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Henry Baker, Henry Clinton (9th Earl of Lincoln), Henry Fox (1st Baron Holland), Henry Hollyday, Jacob Theodore Klein, Jam...
Excerpt from A Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures at Knowsley Hall A small half-length figure wearing the robes of the Order of the Garter, and turned as if walking to the left. A thin white wand is advanced in his right hand, and the other, with the left arm placed a-kimbo, holds a black hat with a white plume, only a small part of which remains visible. His hair is long, and of a brown yellow colour, parted in the middle and falling in long curls on each Side. The light is admitted from the right Side. Part of a fluted column and base appear in background, towards left Side. Inscribed on a paper pasted at the back, James, Duke of Ormond, in the reign of Cha...
This study of Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII and the founder of two Cambridge colleges is the first biography to explore the full range of archival sources and one of the best-documented studies of any late-medieval woman.