| Description | Concerning: the arrival of some dies and specimens of coins; James Smirnove's journey; Count Vasilieff [Vasilyev] and Count Woronzow; knowledge and training in coining; progress in the Mint by Duncan, Harley, Speedyman and Walker; James Walker's declining illness and Dr Leighton's recommendations for him to return to England or die in the Russian winter, James Walker's refusal to return and a request for advise from Boulton; Mr Kakoushkin; Mr Gross' relapse and near death; the search for an artistic likeness of the Emporer Alexander I, including Fluen's seal, a Scotch portrait painter Mr Saxon, and Lächbright's medal; Lord G L Gower and Sir I B Wanen [?] and Gower's political aims in Russia; the temperature and weather; Zaccheus Walker's accounts; and the death of Greggory Watt.
[17 November 1804 N.S.] |