Thomas Martin - Andrew Coltée Ducarel - 1762-04-25

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Thomas Martin - Andrew Coltée Ducarel - 1762-04-25

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ	16814
InstitutionName of Institution.
InventoryInventory number.
AuthorAuthor of the document.	Thomas Martin
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	Andrew Coltée Ducarel
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	April 25, 1762
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.	Palgrave ^{52° 21' 52.14" N, 1° 6' 16.18" E}
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.
LiteratureReference to literature.	Nichols 1812-1815, vol. 9, pp. 420-11, Stoker 19912, Burnett 2024, p. 293
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ^ᵖ	Collection Sale , British Museum
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	English
External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ^ᵖ

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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".

'My eldest son has married very imprudently; that daughter .. now is, and for two years, past has been, confined, through a high disorder in her senses, without any present symptoms of ever recovering. My second son (whom I had bound out to a Surgeon and Apothecary) enlisted for a common soldier.

Others in my family, either afflicted with sickness, or not behaving with that dutifulness, as to be any company in my old age. &c. &c. And, to complete my calamities fortune has seemed for a long while past to frown upon me. Pardon me, my dear friend, for troubling you with this ungrateful detail of my misfortune, but, in short, they have brought me under a necessity of parting with my large and expensive Collection of Books, Deeds, Coins, and various other Curiosities, in my life-time. Nor do I repine at it, as I have no child who understands any thing about them. The great hardship is the present scarcity of money, and want of friends to advise and direct me in what method to dispose of them to the best advantage. Sometimes I am thinking of finding out some Nobleman or Gentleman who would purchase them all together; sometimes of offering the most choice of them to the British Museum; and at other times of exposing them to a public sale or auction in town.'

(Nichols 1812-1815, vol. 9, pp. 420-1; Stoker 1991; Burnett 2024, p. 29)

References

^ Nichols, J. (ed.)(1812-15) Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century, 9 volumes, London
^ Stoker 1991
^ Burnett, Andrew M. (2024), The Hidden Treasures of this Happy Land. A History of Numismatics in Britain from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment: Supplement 1, BNS Special Publ. No 14 = RNS Special Publ. No 58, London, Spink & Son.