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31 letters, 1822-1836, of Sir David Wilkie to Sir James Willoughby Gordon.
Mostly on artistic matters.
With copies of three letters, 1828-1839, of Gordon to Wilkie, and an associated memorandum.
Letter of Allan Cunningham.
Concerning the correspondence of Sir David Wilkie.
Letter of David Wilkie to John Marshall thanking him for a commission.
Letter of David Wilkie to Thomas Macdonald on artistic matters.
Letter of John Burnet to James Stark.
Letter concerns artistic matters and mentions Wilkie`s picture of George IV at Holyroodhouse.
Letter of Sir David Wilkie probably to Dr Nicholas Wiseman, Rome.
In favour of Mr and Mrs Samuel Palmer.
Letter of Sir David Wilkie to Samuel Dobra.
Letter concerns the Royal Academy exhibition and Wilkie`s work on his "Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Gazette of the Battle of Waterloo".
Letters of Sir David Wilkie to John Abel Smith.
Concerns Wilkie`s painting of the Empress Josephine with a fortune-teller.
Photocopies of letters of David Wilkie, Minister of Cults, 1797, and of Sir David Wilkie, 1806 and 1835.
Photocopies of two letters of David Wilkie to Sir Robert Peel on Wilkie`s appointments as Painter in Ordinary to William IV and Limner to the King in Scotland, with a copy of a letter of Peel to Wilkie.
Three documents concerning the appointment of Sir David Wilkie as Chevalier de l`Ordre de la Legion d`honneur.
Includes initial letter of Francois Guizot informing Wilkie of his nomination for the award.
Two autograph letters of David Wilkie.
Two autograph letters, 1829 and undated, of David Wilkie concerning the completion of `The Entrance of King George IV to Holyrood`.
Two letters, 1824, of George Ticknor and George Huntly Gordon.
Letters concern portraits of Sir Walter Scott. Also includes:
1. unrelated letter, 1812, of Sir David Wilkie
2. autograph note, 1816, of Walter Scott to James Ballantyne about "The Antiquary"
3. printed letter, 1829, of Scott