Correspondence
Reference code
ROA/003
Title
Correspondence
Date
1842-90
Level of description
File
Extent and format
1 file
Scope and content
Letters to and from Roach Smith, and others, two engravings, printed items, etc.; 1842-90. See the descriptive list with the collection.
Creator
Smith, Charles Roach (1807-1890), antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/857/3
Archival history
Part of a larger collection later owned by Joseph Mayer of Liverpool (his sale, Sotheby's, 20 July 1887, part of lot 260, purchased by Frederick Hendriks); Hendriks' sale, Sotheby's, 28 Feb.1910, part of lot 257. Several letters from Roach Smith, 1875-88, are addressed to J. A. Jacobs. Later acquired by Colin Franklin, FSA, who presented the collection, July 1976. One letter (of George Eastwood, 1858) came from the bequest of Anthony William George Lowther, FSA, 1972 (A.J., 53 (1973), 386).