A letterpress indenture printed on vellum with blanks for names, dates, and signatures.
- Author: Theatre Royal (Drury Lane, London, England)
- Title: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, rent charge of two shillings and sixpence for every night of performance …
- Created: [London : s.n., 1793]
Drawer 769 793 D84
Acquired July 2012, The Lewis Walpole Library
Text in three columns below caption title and a large woodcut of one of Sharp’s horse-drawn vehicles.
File 63 773 Sh531
Acquired November 2012, The Lewis Walpole Library
![CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE: Letter : Venice, to Emanuele Niecco, Genoa, [1798?] January.](http://lewiswalpole.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/lwlacq000049.jpg)
ALS written at the height of her popularity in Italy (1796-1799), Billington discusses her upcoming performance at the carnival in Genoa, thanks him for the offer of the use of his home and the payment that she requires. She requires a quick response because she was also in the midst of negotiations for a performance in Vienna.
LWL Mss File 105
Acquired January 2013, The Lewis Walpole Library
![CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE: Account book, 1756 October 9-1758 March 18, [1758] September 14-16.](http://lewiswalpole.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/lwlacq000048.jpg)
An account book in a variety of hands that records the purchase price of food that was later sold to customers at the Coach and Horses Inn on Conduit Street, London, between 1756 and 1758. A popular stop for grooms and coachmen, it was located near the Limmer’s Hotel, a haunt for the upper echelons of the mid-Georgian sporting world. The accounts include the prices paid for meat, game, fish, and vegetables as well as details about the kind of fare offered at this time in central London. Other expenses are recorded include payments to maids, valets, housekeeping. Payments are signed and dated. “To Thomas Wilson at Mrs. Graham’s at the Coach and Horses in Conduit Street, London” on back pastedown. Some personal notes unrelated to accounts hint at the lives of the staff: “Miss Mary Ann Lane is [the] best young lady in ale [the] world.”
LWL Mss Vol. 206
Acquired January 2013, The Lewis Walpole Library
A personal account book in a single hand, Henry Boyle’s, of Edgcott, Buckinghamshire beginning January 1745 and ending October 1755, a decade of expenses including travel to France and Spain in March 1748, trips to London, Warwick, and Surrey among other places; wages to servants, payments to tradesmen for wine, clothing, tea, coffee, snuff, venison, medicines, etc.; record bank balances and notes about settling his mother’s estate. He also records receipt of payment for taxes and rents owed him. He includes details about the books he purchases and from whom as well as the occasional philosophical musings, an original song composed in Madrid, and an “infallable cure for the bite of a mad dog”.
LWL Mss Vol. 205
Acquired January 2013, The Lewis Walpole Library
First line of text: Sir, your company is desired to dine with the president, vice presidents & governors of the Lying in Charity for married women at their own habitations on Wednesday the 29th of April …
Dated upper right: “London 11th April 1778.”
File 66 778 L984
Acquired July 2012, The Lewis Walpole Library
Contents: A journal of a late three day tour into France — Anecdotes and critical remarks — A modest defence of my late translations of Horace, against the opinions of the editors of the British critic, and The critical review — Imitations and translations — Original pieces.
Uncut in contemporary paper-backed boards, spine with original printed label.
82 798ch
Acquired Decemer 2012, the Lewis Walpole Library
