Petition of Lely, widow, to the President and Council of the Royal Academy of Painting
Petition of [Martha] Lely, widow of the grandson of
Sir Peter Lely, to receive charitable assistance, after she had been forced by ill health and indigence to enter Miggs's Almshouses at Mile End. The reverse bears a letter from
Joshua Kirby, Kew, to
[Benjamin] Ralph, Knightsbridge, relating to other petitions for charity from the Society of Artists.