Correspondence of Richard Gough with Rev. Michael Lort

GOR/01/02

Correspondence of Richard Gough with Rev. Michael Lort

1769-89

series

ff. vi + 301
Half leather binding, black, with marbled boards.

Letter of John Bowyer Nichols to the Rev. J. Milford, 29? May 1847 (fols. v-vi).

Correspondence chiefly of the Rev. Michael Lort, DD, VPSA, Librarian of Lambeth Palace, including many letters to Gough and a few from Gough, 1769-89 (fols. 12-256v passim). Also includes correspondence of Dr Lort with Emmanuel Mendes Da Costa, 1752, 1773, 1774 (fols. 10, 15, 16, 18, 26, 29, 39, 44) and letters to W. Herbert of Cheshunt, Herts., 1772-85 (fols. 17, 22, 204, 205, 210, 218-20), George Allan, 1774 (fols. 42, 43), John Nichols, 1779-88 (fols. 163, 164, 194, 213, 216, 226, 230, 235, 236); and letters to Dr Lort from Mr Swift (?a relative of Dean Swift), 1774 (fol. 38) and (addressee not given) John Carter, 1780, conc. his visit to Stamford, Peterborough, etc. (fol. 177).

Printed material:- Excerpt from J. Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, II (1812), 594-605, 673-8, relating to Dr Lort (fols. 2-8v); papers read to SA (see Archaeologia, 5 (1779), 98-100, 106-18; 8 (1787), 290-306; 9 (1789), 81-3) by Dr Lort and others (fols. 257-98); excerpt from the Gent. Mag. (1812) relating to a poem, The Northern Mother's Blessing to her Daughter (temp. Chaucer, printed in 1597), from Lort's papers (fols. 300-1).

Lort, Michael (1725-1790), clergyman, academic and antiquary

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