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Cote
Add. MS a/213/67
Titre
Letter from Richard Sheepshanks
Date(s)
- 13 May 1822 (Production)
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Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
4 pp.
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Nom du producteur
Histoire archivistique
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Portée et contenu
An account of AS's travels in Italy. He was impressed with Pompeii: 'The architecture is in good preservation and would hold about twenty or five and twenty thousand persons'. The museum of Naples has to be seen to appreciate the beauty of its articles - statues, pictures and antiquities. However 'The truth is I find myself more English and more tied to my loves and friendships than I ever suspected before. I almost begin to suspect that I shall never like any place but Cambridge. The dirt and filth of the people quite sickens me and I have now very nearly seen as much of pictures and statues as pleases me'.