1592991247000 1541678966000 Standard Record object-110005287 1747159741205 1541683607000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110005287 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005287 69730582-73db-3eef-8c60-780230505a7f 4 person reference agent-198487 adlib-agent-198487 4dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6 Hayley, William person reference agent-60281 adlib-agent-60281 eb950ea2-c7cf-31ca-86c5-6e18f0e39f92 Hayley, Thomas Alphonso person reference agent-198668 adlib-agent-198668 5a590af9-855e-393b-8d5f-f3917a70daea Lowndes, Francis person reference agent-90936 adlib-agent-90936 54bec7dd-e45f-3e1f-9ee9-7b70733be430 Merlin, John Joseph person reference agent-198669 adlib-agent-198669 b52b22a4-347f-3262-bf3b-032e71648c1e Webb, Mr person reference agent-198670 adlib-agent-198670 8b5b2e35-2bdc-3376-9900-135758e2e7d5 Reke, S person reference agent-198656 adlib-agent-198656 f57dd257-bf28-360f-b8d8-c51d5f78cbf0 Farr, Mr content description 1 sheet folded Bunce writes mostly of his attempts - at Hayley' request - to locate a wheelchair for Tom Hayley that can be used in the garden, and which Tom can wheel himself around in. He also mentions Francis Lowndes' "Gymnasticon", which Hayley has asked him about, saying "it is merely a kind of Turner's lathe with treadles & handles for a patient to sit in a room & exercise himself but when I saw it was not made to move from its place". Bunce visited Merlin (John Joseph Merlin, clockmaker, musical-instrument maker and inventor of the self-propelled wheelchair) who "very civilly shewed me half his museum, kept me talking for above an hour & then as civilly assured me that his work was too good for a garden...". Merlin recommended a maker called Webb in Kensington, but thought Webb's wheelchairs were not designed for users to propel themselves as Merlin's were. He then spoke to his colleague Mr Reke, the mechanist of naval works, who offered "to get the mechanical part made himself". Bunce also visited Thomas Weeks (who had a museum of mechanical curiosities in Tichborne Street), who had a similar chair to Merlin's (both were mahogany and upholstered in red leather with brass nails): his cost 17 guineas; Merlin's 17/2 guineas. Weeks told Bunce that a plain one would cost 15 guineas. So, Bunce has asked Reke to start work, and, as Bunce thought the wheels on the other chairs too narrow to use in the garden, has ordered wheels 1 ft in diameter & 2 inches thick for the chair being made for Tom. Bunce then provides instructions and a sketch for Farr on how to finish a shelf adjacent to a picture frame, and instructions and a question about gates. Hayley/XXXII/34 1 accession number Hayley/XXXII/34 110005287 priref 110005287 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005287 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005287 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1798 1798 1798-10-11 reference agent-198522 adlib-agent-198522 c624f601-b49a-3b9f-8cac-1485642a4181 Bunce, Samuel 1 letter Hayley/XXXII/34 object OBJECT