Scope and arrangement
To Lord Blessington, husband of Lady Blessington, the writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed : "Friday" [watermark = 1816] : (BLES 2.136) : [no place] : begins, "I am ashamed of having been so long of answering your Lordship's kind letter; but I could not get the decision of Prince Stiliano Colonna 'till the night before last ..." Mounted in v. 2 of the Blessington Papers.|||To Mr. Patrick, possibly Richard Patrick, classical scholar : 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Nov 1811 : (S'ANA 0473) : regarding translations from the Celtic. A related letter, unsigned with no address, and in an unknown hand, discussing "Mr. P." in an occasionally derisive manner, is also included.