Thomas Hollis - unknown recipient - 1765-11-02
Thomas Hollis
Thomas Hollis - unknown recipient - 1765-11-02
| FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ | 14947 |
| InstitutionName of Institution. | |
| InventoryInventory number. | |
| AuthorAuthor of the document. | Thomas Hollis |
| RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. | |
| Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . | November 2, 1765 |
| PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. | |
| Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation. | William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire |
| LiteratureReference to literature. | Blackburne 1780, vol. 1, pp. 171-3Blackburne 1780, Burnett 2020b, p. 1645Burnett 2020b |
| KeywordNumismatic Keywords ᵖ | Medals , Legends , Death |
| LanguageLanguage of the correspondence | English |
| External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ᵖ |
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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".
I was in close connection with the late Duke of Devonshire, on matters of virtù, for some time before he died, and had just obtained his confidence to so absolute a degree as to have employed it to many noble purposes. I had more than half persuaded him, in the ingenious bagatelle way, to cause dies to be engraven for a series of medals of the Dukes of Devonshire. And in the last conversation I had with him, just before he became stricken, I said to him, that I had found the inscription, though not the subject for the reverse of the medal for the first Duke of Devonshire, DOVBLE OR QVITS, at which we both laughed heartily. For he had feelings, feelings too sensible, and died under them.
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Our meetings past from seven to nine in the morning; had he not made matters easy to me, having not a single bye-view, I could not have given in to the connection.'
(Blackburne 1780, vol. 1, pp. 171-3; Burnett 2020b, p. 1645)
