Item 17 - Correspondence etc relating to Thomas Gainsborough, including a lock of his hair.

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RAB/D/29/17

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Correspondence etc relating to Thomas Gainsborough, including a lock of his hair.

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  • c. 1841 (Creation)

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3 docs, with lock of hair in wrapper.

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Butler, Richard Austen (1902-1982), Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, politician
(1902-1982)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Draft letter by C.R. Leslie to Richard Lane on portraits of Thomas Gainsborough. Lock of Thomas Gainsborough's hair, wrapper dated 2 August 1788 [by Margaret Gainsborough] (the day of his death). Unknown correspondent to Richard J. Lane on Gainsborough’s ancestry. Gainsborough Dupont to Richard J. Lane with notes on Gainsborough's ancestry and copy of family tree.

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