A second letter to Viscount Milton, on the restoration of York Minster, and the proposed removal of the choir screen
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Type of record: Book
Title: A second letter to Viscount Milton, on the restoration of York Minster, and the proposed removal of the choir screen
Classmark: YAS 0144
Creator(s): Harcourt, William Venables Vernon (1789-1871)
Additional creator(s): Smirke, Robert (1752-1845) (Other)
Related people: Fitzwilliam, Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, Earl, 1786-1857; Smirke, Robert
Publisher: John & George Todd, [W. Hargrove, pr.]
Publication city: York
Date(s): 1830
Language: English
Size and medium: 62 p., [1] leaf of plans
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/479023
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016141689705181
Collection group(s): Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society
Description
Vernon's 1st letter to Milton pubd 1830. Contains Mr Smirke's report to the Dean and Chapter of York, July 28, 1830.
Harcourt adopted as family name in 1830, William Venables Vernon thus became William Venables Vernon Harcourt.
Additional description
Bound with ten other publications in volume with spine title: Tracts relative to the York minster screen. Volume contents: 1. Robinson, P.F. : Observations relating to the proposal for removing the choir screen in York Minster (1830) -- 2. Smirke, Robert, 1781-1867 : A report addressed to the subscribers for the restoration of York Minster : on the proposed removal of the choir screen (1830) -- 3. Wellbeloved, Charles, 1769-1858 : A letter addressed to the subscribers to the restoration of the choir of York Minster, on the subject of the proposed removal of the organ screen (1830) -- 4. Wellbeloved, Charles,1769-1858 : A second letter addressed to the subscribers to the restoration of the choir of York Minster : on the subject of the proposed removal of the organ screen (1830) -- 5. Wellbeloved, Charles, 1769-1858 : A letter addressed to the Rev. W. V. Vernon, F.R.S. Can. Res. of York Cathedral, containing remarks on the postscript of his letter to Lord Viscount Milton (1830) -- 6.
Harcourt, William Vernon, 1789-1871 : A letter to Viscount Milton on the restoration of York Minster and the proposed removal of the choir screen (1830) -- 7. Harcourt, William Venables Vernon, 1789-1871 : A second letter to Viscount Milton, on the restoration of York Minster, and the proposed removal of the choir screen (1830) -- 8. Browne, John, 1793-1877 : A letter addressed to the Ven. and Rev. Archdeacon Markham, on the construction and date of the porch of the organ-screen in York Minster: containing remarks on the statements of the Rev. W.V. Vernon, and J. Savage, Esq. (1831) -- 9. Gage, John : Remarks on the alterations proposed in York Minster, in a letter from John Gage to Francis Cholmeley (1831) -- 10. Brown, George Newton : York Minster screen, being a specimen of the Yorkshire dialect as spoken in the North Riding (1833) -- 11. Overton, Charles : Lines on the burning of York Minster : Resurgat (1829) Two leaves of handwritten notes loosely inserted, one dated May 9 '88.
Signature on front inside cover: J. Wright, Bootham, Dec 4th, 1893. Contents of volume listed by hand on front free endpaper. Observations relating to the proposal for removing the choir screen in York Minster has inscription on t.p. Rev. W. Richardson, from the author
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