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History of the Society of Dilettanti 63
1777 and Recommend it to the members of the Society to pay
a guinea per annum for 3 years to come to the Master of the
Star and Garter tavern for the Recompense to him for the use
of this room,—That the Secretary do pay two Hundred guineas to
the Master of the Star and Garter Tavern upon His signing the
Article of Agreement this day produced by the Secretary and laid
before the Society for their inspection.'
It is not clear from the records of the Society camelford
whether this arrangement was actually carried out House,
or not. But the idea of erecting a separate building
for the use of the Society seems to have been again
abandoned about this date (1777) owing to heavy
expenditure from its funds in another direction, as
will be recorded in the succeeding chapters. It
was once more revived in February, 17%?, by a
proposal from Lord Camelford to sell to the Society
the shells of two new houses adjoining his own in
Hereford Street, which might be thrown together
to form a museum <■ for what is properly called
virtu.' The offer, however, was declined by the
Society on discovering that in addition to an initial
cost of £2, j- 00 for the completion of the buildings
by Sir John Soane, they would incur large ex-
penses for furniture, decoration, ground-rent, taxes,
service, &c.; moreover, Lord Camelford made it
a condition that he was to be allowed a special
door and key leading from his own house into
the gallery on the ground floor.
The last flicker of the building scheme seems to Final aban-
have occurred in March, 1790, when it was resolved domientof
building
< That a Committee be appointed to meet here on Sunday the scheme.
aist instant; and that they do take into Consideration the sums
that have been expended by the Society in attempting to provide
a room; and inquire into the state of the site of the Opera House,
that was burnd down last summer, and how far the same may be
proper to be purchasd for the purpose of building one, and to such
other matters as they may think Fit.'
1777 and Recommend it to the members of the Society to pay
a guinea per annum for 3 years to come to the Master of the
Star and Garter tavern for the Recompense to him for the use
of this room,—That the Secretary do pay two Hundred guineas to
the Master of the Star and Garter Tavern upon His signing the
Article of Agreement this day produced by the Secretary and laid
before the Society for their inspection.'
It is not clear from the records of the Society camelford
whether this arrangement was actually carried out House,
or not. But the idea of erecting a separate building
for the use of the Society seems to have been again
abandoned about this date (1777) owing to heavy
expenditure from its funds in another direction, as
will be recorded in the succeeding chapters. It
was once more revived in February, 17%?, by a
proposal from Lord Camelford to sell to the Society
the shells of two new houses adjoining his own in
Hereford Street, which might be thrown together
to form a museum <■ for what is properly called
virtu.' The offer, however, was declined by the
Society on discovering that in addition to an initial
cost of £2, j- 00 for the completion of the buildings
by Sir John Soane, they would incur large ex-
penses for furniture, decoration, ground-rent, taxes,
service, &c.; moreover, Lord Camelford made it
a condition that he was to be allowed a special
door and key leading from his own house into
the gallery on the ground floor.
The last flicker of the building scheme seems to Final aban-
have occurred in March, 1790, when it was resolved domientof
building
< That a Committee be appointed to meet here on Sunday the scheme.
aist instant; and that they do take into Consideration the sums
that have been expended by the Society in attempting to provide
a room; and inquire into the state of the site of the Opera House,
that was burnd down last summer, and how far the same may be
proper to be purchasd for the purpose of building one, and to such
other matters as they may think Fit.'