A Bertrand letter

This material is held atSenate House Library Archives, University of London

Scope and Content

Address: London. [To John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield.] 'L'intérêt que vous prenez au robinia pseudoacacia [i.e. black locust] m'engage de vous en faire le tableau à ma manière, j'espère, qu'il vous sera agréable … J'ai l'honneur de joindre ici une petite brochure de ma composition …'
Autograph, with signature.

Arrangement

See hard copy catalogue.

Access Information

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This document is inserted in A Bertrand 'Questions sur l'agriculture et l'économie rurale' (1792) (presentation copy to Lord Sheffield) - Library classmark [G.L.] 1792. To request the document, please place an order for the volume, specifying that you wish to see the autograph letter AL268.

Other Finding Aids

Typescript catalogue available in the Library's Special Collections Reading Room.

Related Material

Further material relating to the 1st Earl of Sheffield is held in the archives at Senate House Library, see references: MS124, MS 126, MS132, MS139, MS423, MS869, MS942 and MS984; AL55, AL60, AL115, AL116, AL120, AL121, AL144, AL145, AL227, AL277 and AL346