George Richmond, notebook

1 volume

The book commences with some schoolboy exercises in much the same manner as those of his father forty years before; mixed in with these exercises are jumbled transcriptions from books and sketches, some of which appear to have been made in the Antique Academy of the Royal Academy; there are also prayers and pious statements scattered through the volume; daily expenditure is recorded for the summer of 1827, in places Richmond has made subsequent, signed and dated, annotations to the original content, adding some context; a draft letter of thanks to an early patron begs pardon for the delay in his response occasioned by his stay in Shoreham; once sketch is annotated to the effect that it was drawn by Calvert; in the centre of the volume Richmond has provided retrospective account of this period at Shoreham, written in 1889, in a later note, from 1892, he states that he has preserved them from the fire because of the interest of T.K. Richmond.

This volume, although acquired from Agnews at the same time as the rest of the Archive, belonged to a direct descendent of both Thomas and George Richmond. The initials of T.K. Richmond are on the cover.

Elements of this notebook were included in The Richmond Papers, A.M.W. Stirling, 1926.