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ABBREVIATIONS
ODNB – Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (http://www.oxforddnb.com/).
OED – Oxford English Dictionary (http://www.oed.com/).
Vertue – George Vertue, ‘Notebooks’: ‘Vertue I’, Walpole Society, 18 (1929–30); ‘Vertue II’, Walpole Society, 20 (1931–2); ‘Vertue III’, Walpole Society, 22 (1933–4); ‘Vertue IV’, Walpole Society, 24 (1935–6); ‘Vertue V’, Walpole Society, 26 (1937–8); ‘Vertue VI’, Walpole Society, 30 (1948–50).
Walpole’s Correspondence – W. S. Lewis, W. H. Smith and G. L. Lam, eds, Horace Walpole’s Correspondence, 48 vols (London and New Haven, 1947–83).
MANUSCRIPTS
Belton House, Lincolnshire:
Belton House inventories, 1737 and 1754.
Blair Castle, Perthshire:
5/139, ‘Accounts for the year 1764 of John Duke of Atholl’ and inventories of 1777, 1794 and 1830.
bundle 55, ‘Marble Chimneys Commis from Mr Carter 4th Feb 1755’.
bundle 56A, material relating to paintings.
Broadlands manuscripts (copies available at the Royal Collection):
Letters: Viscount Palmerston to Mrs Howe, June 1764; Viscount Palmerston to John White, 24 August 1764.
British Library:
Add. Mss 23,076, George Vertue, memoranda relating to contemporary English painters, sculptors, engravers, etc., as well as to foreign artists resident in England, September 1722 – January 1738/9.
Add. Mss 42,708, James Brockman’s cash book, c.1728–9 to 1752.
Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies:
D138, Chequers manuscripts.
Derbyshire Record Office (copies available at the Yale Center for British Art):
D231/M/E/88–91 and D231M/E1989, Okeover Family Estate Papers.
Gloucestershire Record Office:
D3549, Sharp family papers.
Hopetoun, Edinburgh:
Letters: bundles 468/1, 801, 3474 and 3482.
Mss 518 and 1666, inventories.
Huntington Library:
MO 4697 and 4682, Elizabeth Montagu Papers.
Lincolnshire Record Office:
BNLW 2/2/7/6–8, Belton House and Arlington Street inventories, 1737 and 1754.
Loveday, John, ‘The Tours of John Loveday of Caversham 1728–1765’:
transcript by Sarah Markham, kindly provided by John Markham.
National Archives of Scotland:
GD155, Graham family papers.
GD248, Ogilvie-Grant family papers.
National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum:
Forster Collection, David Garrick: Correspondence and Papers 1717–1779, vol. 29, 48.F.33 (Miscellaneous, 1764–1778).
A Descriptive Inventory of the Household Furniture and Fixtures . . . belonging to the late Dwelling-house of David Garrick esqr . . . taken this 18th day of February 1779 . . . An Inventory of Pictures in Town House on the Royal Terrace Adelphi, 1779.
National Library of Scotland:
Ms 3592, f.146, David Allan to Thomas Graham, 6 November 1785.
Ms 16004, ff.108–9, Jane, Duchess of Atholl, to Mary Graham, 15 July 1781.
Raehills, Dumfriesshire:
Letters: James Gordon[?] to Lady Hopetoun, 3 November 1785; David Allan to Lord Hopetoun, 23 January 1786; David Allan to Lady Hopetoun, 24 March 1787.
Royal Academy Archive:
Royal Academy Press Cuttings, Vol. 1 (1769–93).
Royal Institute of British Architects Archive:
DaFAM/1/2, Dance family papers.
Scottish Record Office Register of Deeds (copy in Scottish National Portrait Gallery):
DAL 244, part 1, ff.268 et seq, Inventory of Pictures in Dupplin House, 1788.
University of Edinburgh Library:
Laing Mss, La.IV.26, ff.1–2, David Allan to Lord Buchan, 3 December 1780.
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