Home
/
LIB/LE/JP/1
LIB/LE/JP/1
Reference code
LIB/LE/JP/1
Level of description
Item
Title
Letter: John Powell to Mr Bellamy, n.d [1794?]
1794?
Extent and medium
1 item
Scope and content
Manuscript. 'Sir / I dont understand your presuming to take me to task for not waiting on Miss Beetham [= Mary Matilda Betham (17761852), miniaturist], it was to oblige you and not myself that I took the trouble to sit for my portrait therefore expected no rudeness from you - the last time I saw Miss B-- I told her I was under the necessity of seeing my surgeon every day, and till I had seen him could not leave home - and that I would call and take my chance of her being disengaged and that I should not mind being disappointed - M?? is at liberty to do what she pleases with the portrait but begs you will inform her that I am ready to pay her for her trouble if she wishes it ...' signed: 'J. Powell / Thursday'. Watermark: 'J. Whatman / 1794'. - 'Mr. Bellamy' not identified; probably Thomas Lodford Bellamy (1770-1843) though he left London for Dublin in 1795 and his subsequent employment at Drury Lane commenced only in 1812