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Letter from SHARON TURNER to JAMES BARRY, written March 1805 , at London

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

On the adjoining leaf of the MS of this letter is a draft letter from Barry to George Tennant dated 28 March 1805; this letter only gives 'Tuesday' as the date, so Turner probably wrote on one of the Tuesdays in March 1805. 28 March 1805 was a Thursday.

English historian Sharon Turner (1768-1847) [img], interested in Icelandic and Anglo-Saxon literature, had abandoned the legal profession in 1795 to work on his History of England from the earliest period to the Norman Conquest (1799-1805). Barry did a pen and ink drawing of his wife Mary; they were married in 1795 (H. R. Loyn, ‘Turner, Sharon’, DNB [go] ).

Dear Sir

I will hope to be favored favoured with your Company to dinner on Friday next at 5 oClock to meet Mr Carlisle1 & Mr Richards2 & a few friends - if no particular engagement sh^d should unfortunately prevent - M^rs Turner 3 desires me to add her Compliments & remembrances.

I am D^r Sir
Y.^rs most sincerely

9 Featherstone B^s4
Tuesday M^g Morning

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1 ^
Mr Carlisle] Probably the surgeon and anatomist Anthony Carlisle (1768-1840), also a friend of Barry's.

2 ^
Mr Richards] Not identified.

3 ^
M^rs Turner] Mary née Watts Turner (c. 1768-1843); Barry did a portrait of her (Pressly, Life and Art, p. 255, item 67).

4 ^
9 Featherstone B^s] Featherstone Buildings, Holborn, London.