| Description | correspondence to several of the Earls of Radnor on matters to do with the collection including: a request from a Mr Gray of Salisbury for permission to copy one of the paintings; a request from George Agar Ellis (1797-1833), a director of the British Gallery, for the loan of some pictures for an exhibition; from George Perfect Harding (d.1853) with comments on the identity of several of the historical portraits; to Mrs Lousia Hay both from William, 3rd Earl of Radnor (1770-1869) and Margaret Carpenter at the British Museum about Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1735-1811) and a picture of Jacob, 2nd Earl of Radnor (1750-1828); from Ralph Nicholson Wornum (1812-1877), Keeper of the National Gallery, about several questions of attribution of either the subjects of some of the paintings, or that of the artists themselves; two letters about Thomas Gainsborough from a correspondent whose signature is indecipherable (possibly Grimes); from Cyril A White on behalf of a friend from Louvain researching the life of Quentin Metsys and asking for photographs of the Holbeins, together with research into the Erasmus and the Egidius; from Richard Berkley discussing miniatures by Isaac Oliver and Nicholas Hilliard; and some notes on the purchase of the portraits of Erasmus and Egidius by Holbein and the two pictures by Claude Lorraine |