Letters by Sir George Chalmers, Portrait Painter, from Edinburgh, and Lady Chalmers, from York, to Sir William Chambers, 1774 & 1783

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CHA. 2/99-101 Two letters by Lady Chalmers, Jan & May 1783 (4p. on 2 leaves): concerning the sale at Christie & Ansell's of busts and bas-reliefs from their collection; reports that her husband is busy at Portsmouth painting portraits of naval officers and that Abbe Grant [Peter Grant, d.1784, Scottish agent at Rome who rendered great services to British travellers] was expected to return soon to Britain.