Richard's Daily Remembrancer
RA Collection: Archive
Archive context
Reference code
GRI/2/23
Title
Richard's Daily Remembrancer
Date
1869
Level
Item
Extent & medium
1 volume, 2 pieces
Content Description
Inserted at the beginning of the volume is a list of members of "The Club" from February 1870, pasted in the volume adjacent to this is a typescript letter from Samuel Palmer to Richmond from December 1869; in January he reveals his response Robert Browning's "The Ring and the Book"; in March he tells of the circumstances whereby he missed an appointment with the Queen; in October is inserted a summary memo of the facial dimensions of Lord Leven, and pasted next to it is an Royal Academy death notice for George Jones; in November he pastes a newspaper cutting relating to a presentation of his portrait of Major Bruce Cumming; in December he has pasted an Royal Academy death notice for Thomas Creswick; in the memoranda section he has affixed a newspaper cutting detailing the presentation of his portrait of Sir W. Heathcote.