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The Cotman Letters 1804-1833

Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/3/1/2
Page: 61


  • Description

    Dawson Turner describes Cotman's works as interesting to an antiquary- in a letter to James De Carle Sowerby ; 20/01/1817.

    Letter from Dawson Turner to James De Carle Sowerby, 19th Dec 1813.

    Date: 19/12/1813

  • Transcription

    Dawson Turner to James De Carle Sowerby, [Botanist 1787 - 1817.]
    "Yarmouth. 19 Dec:1813
    ....Mr Cotman begs me to say that he wrote to you immediately after receiving your first letter & parcel, and that he did not answer your second letter, concluding that his had not reached you at the time it was written. Should it by any accident still not have found its way to Mead Place [Sowerby's residence] he requests that you will have the goodness to [1 word illegible] him.

    The same to the same.
    " Yarmouth 20 January, 1817
    .... I have by this post directed Barclay & Co to honour your Draft for £21-11-8, being £9.44.11 for the application: £1.10-0 which I have received from Mr Cotman; & to £10-16-9 which MrDownes has paid me for your father.....Mr Cotman's works grow numerous & make a very beautiful set, & to an antiquary a very interesting one."

Dawson Turner describes Cotman's  works as interesting to an antiquary- in a letter to James De Carle Sowerby ; 20/01/1817.