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Ford, Richard, (1796-1858), travel writer and art connoisseur

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Surname: Ford
Forenames: Richard
Gender: Male
Date: 1796-1858
Biography: ODNB link for Ford, Richard (1796-1858), art connoisseur and author
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P155260 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P10351 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Richard Ford
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
collected papers and corresp
Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development
NRA 43594 Ford

See HMC file Bean
2
1847-51: letters to Lord and Lady Lovelace
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
Dep Lovelace Byron
NRA 21980
3
1839-56: letters to Macvey Napier and others
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See Index of MSS, IV, 1984
4
1833-58: letters to Sir William Stirling Maxwell (88) and Sir Edmund Head (71)
Glasgow City Archives
T-SK 29.57
NRA 24669 Stirling
5
1834-1878: correspondence with notable artistic and literary figures, including Dominic Colnaghi, Anthony Panizzi, Charles Eastlake, Edward Lear, George Borrow, Thomas Lawrence, Anna Jameson, John Murray, John Everett Millais
National Gallery Research Centre
NGA48
See Annual Return 2021