[draft] [Ozias Humphry], to [Benjamin Webber]

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

HU/2/64

Title

[draft] [Ozias Humphry], to [Benjamin Webber]

Date

[1777]

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

Announcing his return to England; he never wrote to a soul while in Italy, other than his brother and mother, but not Sir Joshua Reynolds or Jackson; but now he is back and lodging for £120 p.a. in Newman Street, a little beyond Mr. West and ready to open shop as a portrait painter in oil; he has promised to give his brother £500 to help him marry and is compelled to ask Webber for the repayment of his loan; if Webber has money saved then he would be happy to have a loan of it.

Physical Characteristics

Folded and torn

Associated Material

HU/2/61-62