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Letter from SOCIETY OF ARTS to JAMES BARRY, written 14 May 1801, at Adelphi, London

Source: MS James Barry Papers and Letters, f. 46, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

The Secretary of the Society of Arts, Charles Taylor1 responds to Barry's letter of 6 May in which he asked the Society 'to appoint a Committee of two or three of its members in order to see that I am provided with ladders or whatever may be necessary' to varnish his paintings in the Great Room, The Progress of Human Culture.

Society of Arts Adelphi May 14
1801

Sir

I have the Honor to acquaint^{transmit to}transmit to you that at the general Meeting of the Society of 13^th Ins^t the Thanks of the ^{General Meeting of the} General Meeting of the Society ^{of 13th - Inst2} of 13^th - Ins^t2were ordered to be given you for at for your Zeal & Services & that to inform you that you are desired to proceed in varnishing your pictures

I remain respectfully Sir
Your obed.^t Serv^tobedient Servant

James Barry Esq^r - 3

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Charles Taylor (d.1816), a chemist from Manchester, succeeded as Secretary to the Society on the death of Samuel More in 1799; his portrait was printed as the frontispiece of the Society's Transactions, 1817, vol. xxxv. [img]

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Ins^t] Abbreviation for 'Instant', i.e. of this month.

3 ^
James Barry Esq^r -] Written in a different hand from Taylor's.