Page-Turner

Includes:

-two letters exchanged between Simpson and Frances Page-Turner, dated 21 November-3 December 1951, concerning the collection of Sir Gregory Page

-three letters exchanged between Simpson and John F. Harris, dated 22 October-23October 1956, concerning Wricklemarsh, the seat of Sir Gregory Page and Sir Gregory Turner

-handwritten notes concerning the collection of the Page-Turner's, undated (4pp)

-annotated photocopies from a handwritten inventory of 1775 listing the property of Gregory Page of Wricklemarsh, undated (15pp)

-annotated photocopies of pp 314-321 from: Dodsley, R. and J. 1761. London and its environs described : containing an account of whatever is most remarkable for grandeur, elegance, curiosity or use, in the city and in the country twenty miles around it : comprehending also whatever is most material in the history and antiquities of this great metropolis : decorated and illustrated with a great number of views in perspective, engraved from original drawings, taken on purpose for this work : together with a plan of London, a map of the environs, and several other useful cuts. R. and J. Dodsley. London. The information relates to works of art in the collection of Sir Gregory Page.

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