Byres, James, of Tonley, antiquary and architect, 1734-1817
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Business Papers mostly of Patrick Moir., 1797-1817.
File
Identifier: Acc.14324/1
Scope and Contents
Correspondence relates to Moir's efforts to reserve his uncle’s (Byres) objets d’art left in the Scotch College in Rome from the depredations of the French in 1797, with papers relating to the attempts to recover them, 1797-1817.
Dates:
1797-1817.
Family letters of James Byres to Patrick Moir., 1793-1806.
File
Identifier: Acc.14324/2
Scope and Contents
Includes a letter of 1797 from possibly the engraver Christopher Norton.
Dates:
1793-1806.
Further letters to and concerning James Byres., 1774-1805.
File
Identifier: Acc.14324/3
Scope and Contents
Letters include that of Lady Powis to James Byres concerning his engravings with Byres’ draft reply, 1805; André François Baron d’Anstrude to (almost certainly) Sir John Anstruther, 2nd Bart of that Ilk, 1774; and a copy of a letter of Sir John Hippisley to Henry, Cardinal York, 1800, from the papers of A P Trotter.
Dates:
1774-1805.
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