Letters addressed to John Holland Esq.. of Ford [House] near Chesterfield [in Stretton]...

Letters addressed to John Holland Esq.. of Ford [House] near Chesterfield [in Stretton] concerning private and professional matters, together with a few other papers

Correspondents in these documents include John Boydell, Lady Banks, Richard brother of Joseph Wright, J Mitchell, Thomas Gisborne, Thomas Babington, Thomas Borrow. Subjects include as follows:

D37 M/H20/2 Design of a stove 1782

D37 M/H20/3 Subscriptions to the publication of ? an illustrated edition of Shakespeare by John Boydell 1787

D37 M/H20/4 Mathematics 1789

D37 M/H20/8-13 Papers relating to Holland's work as an embellisher including the supply of skins, payment 1790-1799

D37 M/H20/14 Life in the Bahamas 1796

D37 M/H20/17, 18 Death of Joseph Wright, asking Holland to attend the funeral 30 Aug 1797

D37 M/H20/20 Holland invited to view and choose from prints by Lady Banks at Overton 1802

D37 M/H20/21 Portrait painted by Holland 1802

D37 M/H20/24-26 Restoration of possible Van Dyke portrait belonging to Thomas Babington 1805

D37 M/H20/31, 33-34 J Wrights desire to take orders [Holland was one of his guardians] and reaction to this 1805

D37 M/H20/35 "The Trafalgar picture" and artists being employed "on something relating to the death of the brave Lord Nelson" 1806

D37 M/H20/38 Young painter Wilkie, bust of Mr Pitt by Nollekens, sale of Mr Byrne's engravings 1806

D37 M/H20/39 Despatch of books to Holland with costs 1806

Other papers are:

D37 M/H20/40 Account between estate of Richard Worsam Esq. deceased and Mary Bearda now of Barbados (1768) assigned to Mr Burrow Rector of Morton 1772

D37 M/H20/41 Letter (addressee unknown) relating to search for heir at law to Mr Selby's estate at Wavenden, Buckinghamshire 1787

D37 M/H20/42 Spoof minutes of Society of Foolitical Information 1793

D37 M/H20/43 Humorous verse "The Neds", no date

Note: John Holland was a friend of Joseph Wright of Derby the painter, an amateur artist and shown by this correspondence to have skills in picture restoration (see D37 M/H20/24-26). He worked as an embellisher of letters, that is he decorated official documents. Elsewhere in the Holland papers (see D37 M/H17/38) he is described as an embellisher to the King