State Historical Museum, Moscow

Collection of Count G. Orlov

An authorisation to pay a dividend on South Sea stock to Thomas Snow, signed by Congreve, from London, 2 October 1716. In the autograph collection of Count Grigory Vladimirovich Orlov (1777-1826), acquired when he visited England in 1821. 1716.

*CgW 122: William Congreve, Document(s)

Recorded by M.P. Alexeyev in ‘British Manuscripts in Russia’, TLS (21 September 1946), p. 456.