4 ALS to Thomas Townshend, 2 February 1753 - 24 January 1754.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800, author.

Series:

Grand Tour.

The Grand Tour

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grand tours (Education)--History--18th century.

Grand tours (Education).

Genre:

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Four ALS to Thomas Townshend

Place of Publication:

2 February 1753 - 24 January 1754.

1753

Summary:

Written by Townshend (later Lord Sydney) during his typical mid-century Grand Tour, these letters are perhaps most interesting for the many references to fellow travellers, many of whom would become leading politicians in the following decades. Townshend travelled with a Mr Dassier, who, judging from his familiarity with Switzerland and the court at Turin, is probably the Swiss medallist James Anthony Dassier. (In one of the later letters, for example, Townshend describes Dassier's suggestion that Townshend study in the academy and take dancing lessons at Turin, in preference to Paris.) Among the many Englishmen mentioned are: William Stewart, Viscount Mountjoy; Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, who seems to have been a good friend to Townshend at the time, although the two later became political enemies; Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount Weymouth, who was about to go to Germany with his governor, a Mr Mersey; Lionel Tollemache, 5th Earl of Dysart, who wanted only English companions at Lausanne and refused to herd with the Frenchmen; William Henry Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, then the envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the King of Sardinia at Turin; George Yonge, 5th Bart., secretary at the British Legation in Turin; and William Anne Keppel, 2nd Earl Albemarle.

Notes:

AMDigital Reference: Osborn MSS F14777-80

OCLC:

1373887103