Record

Document Reference	Pw F 6083
Title	Letter from Dr B[enjamin] Kennicott, 'Golden Ball, Bottom Haymarket', to [W.H.C. Cavendish-Bentinck], 3rd Duke of Portland; 31 Mar. 1766
Date	31 March 1766
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	States that Mr Kaye informed him that the duke wished to be informed of the answer from China; says the answer is from a Jesuit in China and is a very long letter; notes that the question at issue was whether the 32 characters on the bust of Isis at Turin and which are supposed to be Chinese, are really so; notes that though 5 of the characters are like Chinese, the whole is not; the Jesuit sent some 'elegant drawings' of Chinese characters and a 'curious Dissertation' on the nature of Chinese literature.
Term	antiquities, bust of Isis at Turin
	literature, Chinese
	art, sculpture, bust of Isis at Turin
	palaeography, Chinese hieroglyphics

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA1097	Kaye; Richard (1736-1809); 6th Baronet; chaplain to the King 1766; dean of Lincoln; rector of Kirkby Nottinghamshire; prebend of York Southwell and Durham	1736-1809
NA35310	Kennicott; Benjamin (1718-1783); Dr; DD; biblical scholar; Radcliffe librarian 1767-83; canon of Christ Church Oxford from 1770	1718-1783
NA905	Bentinck; William H.C. Cavendish- (1738-1809); 3rd Duke of Portland; succ. 1762	1738-1809