Letter-Book

A volume of autograph contemporary copies of letters by Andrew Lumisden, antiquary and Secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, for the year 1763. The letter-book, which joins several other Lumisden letter-books already in the National Library, is a valuable source of information on the Jacobite Court in Rome and the cultural world of the Grand Tour.

Item author: Andrew Lumisden (1720-1801)
Item date: 1763
Grant Value: £718
Item cost: £1,435
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2009
Item institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh