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Call Number:
MSS 15
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Creator:
Powell, Peter, circa 1775–1855
Title(s):
Letter to Charles Robert Leslie
Date:
1838 October 26
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series III: Correspondence
Part of Collection:
1, folder 58
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
Powell writes from Clapham Rise and addresses the letter to Leslie at Pine Apple Place, Edgware Road, London. He reports on his recent "Ramble through Belgium" and is sorry to have missed an invitation from Leslie to dine with him. He offers to attend another dinner to make "the best amends." He wants to see how Leslie is coming along with his "Coronation Picture, having met with two of your Lady Sitters at Tunbridge Wells last week." Peter closes with a rather cryptic postscript about a decision being made about a Jane Gamble. He is concerned about her leaving her home (?), saying that her parents will never recover from it.
Physical Description:
4 pages (1 folded leaf) ; 22.5 x 37 cm. Autograph letter, signed; written in pen and brown/black ink.
Genre:
Correspondence , Pictorial works, Albums (Books), Autobiographies, Cut-paper works, Graphite drawings, Pen and ink drawings, Letters, Sketchbooks, and Watercolors (paintings)
Subject Terms:
Dance
Military uniforms
Painters
Painting
Painting, British
Panoramas
Subject Period:
19th century
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859
Powell, Peter, circa 1775-1855
Finding Aid Title:
Charles Robert Leslie Collection
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/8.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/1300
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1300?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1