Melbury House

Relates to the published article: Millar, Oliver (1995), Artists and craftsmen in the service of Sir Stephen Fox and his family, Burlington Magazine, August 1995, Vol. 137, Issue 1109, pp 518-528

Contains information on the following:

-Melbury House, Dorset

Includes:

-two letters from Kate, Lady Gibson, London dated October-September 1995 concerning Sir Stephen Fox's collection

-typescript of Paymaster's Day Books, ref: D/FSI Sir Stephen Fox provided by Hugh Jaques, June 1993 [photocopy]

-draft article

-booklet on All Saints' Church Farley [c 1990]

-letter from Geoffrey Beard, Bath, dated 19 August 1995, concerning Sir Stephen Fox

-two letters from Lucinda Moubray, Secretary to the Hon. Mrs Morrison, Melbury House, Dorset, dated November 1994-January 1995, concerning photographs

-letter from David C. Reeve, County Archivist, Dorset County Council, dated 18 September 1992, concerning building work at Melbury house in the late XVIIth-early XVIIIth century

-letter from Francis Russell, Christie's, nd, enclosing seven colour photographs of an unknown collection

-family tree tracing lineages of William Fox; Sir Stephen Fox; Giles Strangways; George Horner

-extract from a book about Chiswick House, London [photocopy]

-letter from Michael McGarvie, Somerset, dated 19 July 1994, concerning Colonel Thomas Strangways Horner

-letter from Peter Day, Keeper of Collections, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, dated 1 July 1994, concerning Chiswick

-nine colour photos of a church interior at All Saints', Farley

-letter from Hugh Jaques, Dorset County Council, dated 27 May 1994, concerning a visit

-notes on Farley Church

-notes on Public Finance and Private Wealth: The Career of Sir Stephen Fox, 1627-1716 by Christopher Clay

-notes on manuscripts at the British Library, London

-notes on Historical Collections relating to Chiswick by W.P.W. Phillimore and W.H. Whitear (ed.)

-twenty three b/w photographs of a bust of Stephen Fox at All Saints' Church Farley

-two colour prints of portraits of Sir Stephen Fox and Lady Fox at Sherborne Castle, Dorset

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