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        Mrs Armory      Life of Copley

   Says C painted miniature of Washington in New York & is still in existance.
   Letter of C 21st July 1774 London says he has "had a visit from Sir Joshua R. & from Mr. Strange the eng.  Lord Eagemont of town = letter of C says Hutch asked Lord Just. North to get Geo III to sit to Copley as personal favor to him Hutch.  Miss A says ports of King & Q are in Wentworth House Portsmouth.  Family [[Picture?]] eng. by R then but unfinished as eng died.  C sent the sepia of it to his d Mrs. G. Green & the orig. picture in Boston was moved by hand out of the big Boston fire of 1872.  Letter of 1802 mentions p & eng.  Row with Sir W. Chambers of the Chathains & slander that C had not delivered prints of the Chathain in order of [[strikethrough]] set [[/strikethrough]] subscription  Edmund Malone constant friend defended C by stating that C paid [[Bashatoz?]] 2000 £ that the number of subscribers from [[strikethrough]] date [[/strikethrough]] Ap 1780 to Aug 1782 were 1750 that 2438 subs in all that 230 progs were struck from the plate & that prints were delivered in order of names -- [[Eadmun?]] Greene gave Harvard 11 prints of a Copley    In 1811 J. A. Adams made Copley to turn over to Ward Nich Boylston the full length port. of John Adam as JOA has "consented it should be placed in large

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hall of public gallery lately erected in Boston.  Long letter of JOA commending the p.

   On return from Germany 1790 where he'd been for Hanoverian portraits for Gibraltar Copley called on Sir Joshua Lady Mary Duncan bought [[image of a lady with glasses in a bonnet?]] the "Victory of Duncan for 1000 guineas
   Mrs. Copley in letter London June 23, 1821 
        In your letter you make inquiry concerning the pic of Ch I.
        It is still in our house in George St. with the others & the pictures all remain as they were left.  That of Ch I was borrowed by the gents of the British Institution for their Ex and was much talked of.  The king Geo IV expressed his desire to have the p.  The price fixed is 1500 guineas.
        In his George St. studio Copley [[said?]] "real life was spent  Here the long days of that northern summer when day [[strikethrough]] by [[/strikethrough]] so [[cnarthingly?]] yields to night" were spent at his easel.     Red Cora Knight
fl. 1877-90 - 1785 Copley lost 2 children with scarlet fever  Susannah 9 yrs  Miss A mentions the port. of which G. Jones [[suel?]] his [[lapthdog?]] which Lady DuCane [[crined?]] -- the little girl Susannah  Lyndhurst said his mother never recovered from the blow of their childrens death.  Eliz oldest child came to Boston 1800 as Mrs. G. Greene

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Here is a link to Ward Nicholas Boylston: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Nicholas_Boylston