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Correspondence of Richard Gough with Rev. Michael Lort
Catalogue reference: GOR/01/02
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- GOR/01/02
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Title (The name of the record)
- Correspondence of Richard Gough with Rev. Michael Lort
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1769-89
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence chiefly of the Rev. Michael Lort, DD, VPSA, Librarian of Lambeth Palace, including many letters to Gough and a few from Gough, 1769-89 (fols. 12-256v passim). Also includes correspondence of Dr Lort with Emmanuel Mendes Da Costa, 1752, 1773, 1774 (fols. 10, 15, 16, 18, 26, 29, 39, 44) and letters to W. Herbert of Cheshunt, Herts., 1772-85 (fols. 17, 22, 204, 205, 210, 218-20), George Allan, 1774 (fols. 42, 43), John Nichols, 1779-88 (fols. 163, 164, 194, 213, 216, 226, 230, 235, 236); and letters to Dr Lort from Mr Swift (?a relative of Dean Swift), 1774 (fol. 38) and (addressee not given) John Carter, 1780, conc. his visit to Stamford, Peterborough, etc. (fol. 177).
Printed material:- Excerpt from J. Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, II (1812), 594-605, 673-8, relating to Dr Lort (fols. 2-8v); papers read to SA (see Archaeologia, 5 (1779), 98-100, 106-18; 8 (1787), 290-306; 9 (1789), 81-3) by Dr Lort and others (fols. 257-98); excerpt from the Gent. Mag. (1812) relating to a poem, The Northern Mother's Blessing to her Daughter (temp. Chaucer, printed in 1597), from Lort's papers (fols. 300-1).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Society of Antiquaries of London
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Gough, Richard (1735-1809), antiquary
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- Society of Antiquaries online catalogue: https://collections.sal.org.uk/gor.01.02
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/4574c8a4-f12c-4998-9cbb-741bc69029f7/
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Correspondence of Richard Gough
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Correspondence and church notes of Richard Gough
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Correspondence of Richard Gough
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Correspondence of Richard Gough with Rev. Michael Lort