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William Kent’s letters in the Huntington Library, California

Among the Hastings Collection purchased by the Huntington Library in January 1927 from Maggs of London are seven letters written by William Kent; two of these were included in the Historical Manuscripts Commission’s four-volume Report on the Manuscripts of the Late Reginald Rawdon Hastings, Esq., of The Manor House, Ashby de la Zouch (1928–47), but the remaining five have not been published until now. Despite their oddities of spelling and punctuation, they are worthy of notice if only for the light they cast on Kent’s relationship with the Hastings family.