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“I was fetched from the Audit House yesterday . . .”: HMC Portland, vol. 7.
“handsome, genteel, and well fashioned”: ms. Méjanes.
“I own to you these reflections animate me . . .”: ms. Méjanes.
“I am aware . . .”: ms. Méjanes.
Rebecca Law’s visit to Venice: PRO SP 78/170.
“My brother must have gone mad . . .”: ms. Méjanes.
“some conversation I have had lately with your brother . . .”: quoted by Healey.
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“I have wrote several times to the Regent, and to the Cardinal about your enlargement . . .”: ms. Méjanes, 204.
“If the Duke of Orleans is disposed to recall him . . .”: Sir Robert Walpole to Sir Luke Schaub, 10 April 1723, quoted in Wood, pp. 173-75.
Offers of loans: ms. Méjanes, 198v.
“I have so ordered my brother’s journey to Paris with him . . .”: Walpole to Lord Townshend, October 12, 1723, quoted in Wood, p. 175.
“Can you not prevail on the Duke to help me . . .”: Letters to and from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk 1712-1767, vol. 1.
“there is scarcely an example, perhaps not one instance . . .”: Harsin.
“I have sacrificed everything . . .”: Harsin.
“I will do all I can so that his majesty and his ministers are satisfied . . .”: PRO SP 81/91.
CHAPTER 18: Venetian Sunset
Dispatches to Whitehall: PRO SP 81/91.
“The splendour and beauty . . .”: quoted by Hibbert, Grand Tour.
Law and the art market: Murphy; Hamilton.
“No man alive believes that his pictures when they come to be sold . . .”: Burges to Lord Londonderry October 21, 1729; PRO SPc108/415, quoted in Murphy.
Painting of Law by Verelst: sold Christie’s December 16, 1966, lot 291. Signed and dated 1727, ex-collection Sir H. Steward.
Montesquieu’s visit: Voyages de Montesquieu, vol. 1, p. 59.
“a shivering cold fit which lasted him five or six hours . . .”: Burges, Venice, March 4, 1729, PRO SP 99/63 91.
“Mr. Law is dead, after struggling seven or eight and twenty days . . .”: Burges, Venice, March 25, 1729, PRO SP 99/63 95.
“He departed this life on Monday last . . .”: letter from John Law Jr. to Katherine Knowles, quoted by Murphy.
“I wished to be informed surreptitiously concerning the testament which everyone said the deceased had made . . .”: letter from de Gergy to Chauvelin, French minister of foreign affairs, March 26, 1729, quoted in Hyde.
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