Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1781-1810. (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
ii, 19 ff. ; 335 x 220 mm. Loose in rebacked Middle Hill boards.
Context area
Archival history
Transferred from NLW Department of Printed Books to NLW Department of Manuscripts and Records in 1995.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Kraus, H. P.; New York; Purchase; 1995
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Letters and papers, 1781-1810, of Morgan Thomas, Norfolk Street, the Strand, London, and William Makepeace Thackeray, grandfather of the novelist W. M. Thackeray, executors appointed under the will of Hopkin Walters, surgeon with the East India Company in Bengal, who died at sea in 1781. The documents include references to the seizure of the testator's original will by the authorities in Cadiz and an attempt to recover his effects and part of his fortune in gold and silver from the ship Diana.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
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Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
The contents of NLW MSS 22853-23691 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003).
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Existence and location of copies
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Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Also known as Phillipps MS 34773.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23473E.
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Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- East India Company (Subject)
- Diana (Ship), of the East India Company (Subject)
- Walters, Hopkin, d. 1781 -- Death and burial (Subject)
- Walters, Hopkin, d. 1781 -- Will (Subject)
- Thomas, Morgan, London (Subject)
- Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1749-1813 (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
May 2009.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003);