T[homas] L[awrence], Greek St., to Joseph Farington, at Rev. Mr. Hamond, Great Massingham, Bougham, Norfolk

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

LAW/1/165

Title

T[homas] L[awrence], Greek St., to Joseph Farington, at Rev. Mr. Hamond, Great Massingham, Bougham, Norfolk

Date

[20 Oct 1807]

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

The election meeting [for Royal Academy Associates] fast approaches; he discusses the continuing journalistic spat involving Cobbett; discusses the politics of American relations, the surrender of Copenhagen and worries about printed attacks on the upper class, makes comparison with pre-revolutionary France; he describes portions of a conversation between Lord Erskine and Curran, witnessed while dining at Kemble's.