| Description | [Includes a description taken from R. Hamilton’s letter of 14 Nov. 1804: ‘ The Box was about 8 inches long and 4 Square. It contained W. Creighton’s letters to June 1801, which were enclosed in a sheet of light coloured coarse paper, sealed at each end and superscribed with his name. The other contents were a Portrait of your father in Jasper, a coffee cup covered with a Metallic ground and some very diminutive specimens of some Experiments of the conversion of Glass into Porcellain [sic].’] |