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Autograph letters, etc.

  • NLW MS 2690E
  • File
  • 19 cent.

An album of autograph letters of artists, politicians, writers, etc. addressed to members of the Herbert (Aberaeron), Graves, Kellie and other families, together with many cut-out signatures.

Autograph of Welsh Bishops, &c.

  • NLW MS 5250E
  • File
  • [1684-1826]

Autograph letters or autographs, 1684-1826, of William Davies Shipley, dean of St. Asaph, and John Moore, bishop of Norwich (aft. Ely), and of the following who held bishoprics in Wales: Shute Barrington (Llandaff), Thomas Burgess (St. Davids), Edward Copleston (Llandaff), John Egerton (Bangor), John Ewer (Llandaff), Samuel Horsley (St. Davids, aft. St. Asaph), John Randolph (Bangor), Thomas Sherlock (Bangor), Thomas Tanner (St. Asaph), John Tyler (Llandaff), Richard Watson (Llandaff), and Lawrence Womack (St. Davids).

Shipley, William Davies, 1745-1826

Autographs

  • NLW MS 10774E.
  • File
  • 1642-1868

An album of about one hundred and fifty autographs of royalty and of distinguished politicians, public men, and clergy, mainly of the nineteenth century, and mainly collected by Colonel John Lloyd Wynne, Coed Coch, Abergele. Included are a holograph letter, 11 September, 1642, from [Sir] Edw[ard] Nicholas, secretary of state, from Nottingham, to Walter Long, surveyor to the king, at Whitehall (references to the Marquis of Hertford's forces, the movements of the King, the growth of the Army, etc.); an autograph letter, in Latin, 3 December, 1658, from King Charles II from Brussells, to King Frederick of Denmark (the recipient's success against the Dutch); and holograph letters or cut-away autographs of, among others, King George [III or IV], Queen Victoria, Edward Harley, 5th Earl of Oxford, Alexander Chalmers, 1805, Thomas Orde-Powlett, 1st Baron Bolton, 1813, Edward Pellew, 1st viscount Exmouth, 1818, Charles Grey, 2nd earl Grey, 1833, Joseph Wolff, missionary, 1835, William Lamb, 2nd viscount Melbourne, 1836, Augustus Frederick, duke of Sussex, 1837, Daniel O'Connell, 1838, Sir robert Peel, 2nd bart., 1839, Sydney Smith, canon of St. Pauls, 1840, William Howley, archbishop of Canterbury, 1843, Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman, cardinal archbishop of Westminster, 1859, Lord John Russell, 1st earl Russell, 1861, Louis Phillippe, duke of Orleans, from Claremont, 1861-3, Edward George Geffrey Smith Stanley, 14th earl of Derby, 1862, Granville George Levenson-Gower, 2nd earl Granville, 1862, Lord John George Beresford, archbishop of Armagh, 1862, Francis Jeune, bishop of Peterborough, 1865, Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, 1868, Richard Chenevix Trench, archbishop of Dublin, 1868, Henry John Temple, 3rd viscount Palmerston, John Bird Summer, archbishop of Canterbury, Samuel Wilberforce, bishop of Oxford, Richard Whately, archbishop of Dublin, etc.

Autographs and letters of dignitaries

  • NLW MS 22671A
  • File
  • mid 19 cent. - 20 cent.

An album of photographs and autographs, mainly of ecclesiastical dignitaries; and letters, 1850s- 1900s, together with signatures cut from correspondence, largely addressed to the Reverends John Samuel Sidebotham, Henry Sidebotham and Thomas William Sidebotham, from ecclesiastical dignitaries including Randall T. Davidson, Charles Thomas Longley, A. P. Stanley, Archibald Campell Tait and Samuel Wilberforce. Other correspondents include W. Holman Hunt (1) 1874, Charles Kingsley (1) 1868, Francis Turner Palgrave (1) 1861, and Alfred Tennyson (1) 1870. A few of the letters and signatures are tipped into the album; the remainder, many of which were found loose inside the album, have been filed separately (MS 22672B).

Autographs of bishops, &c.,

  • NLW MS 11113E
  • File
  • 1683-1874.

A collection of annotated documents bearing the autographs of Welsh bishops and others. They include a letter testimonial, 1683, from Humphr[ey Lloyd], bishop of Bangor; a holograph letter from W[illiam Fleetwood], bishop of St. Asaph, 1711; warrants, 1722, of A[dam Ottley], bishop of St. Davids, for the payments of dividends due to him upon stock in the South Sea Company's books; an acquittance, 1731, signed by Benj[amin Hoadley], bishop of Salisbury (bishop of Bangor, 1716-21); a decree, 1740, by R[ichard Reynolds], bishop of Lincoln (bishop of Bangor, 1721-3), concerning a University of Oxford fellowship; a holograph letter, undated, from Matt[hias] Mawson (bishop of Llandaff, 1739-40); an acquittance, 1757, signed by John [Thomas], bishop of Salisbury; an acquittance, 1771, signed by Edwd. [Willes], bishop of Bath and Wells (bishop of St. Davids, 1743); a holograph letter from J[ohn Ewer], bishop of Bangor, to Richd. Burn, Westminster, 1772; an acquittance, 1750, signed by J[ohn Gilbert], bishop of Salisbury (bishop of Llandaff, 1740-9); a certificate, 1791, from E[dward Smallwell], bishop of Oxford (bishop of St. Davids, 1783-8), to the treasurer of the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty relating to the institution of a clerk in South Stoke, Oxfordshire; a certificate, 1795, by W[illiam Stewart], bishop of St. Davids, relating to the perpetual curacy of Talley; and a holograph letter from [George Murray], bishop of St. Davids, 1802; etc.

Autographs of subscribers

  • NLW MS 810B
  • File
  • 19 cent.

A 19th century manuscript containing autographs of subscribers to an address of congratulation presented to John Allen Williams by teachers, pupils, etc. in the Llanelli district.

Autographs,

  • NLW MS 9668E.
  • File
  • [1848x1873].

A collection of autographs of South Wales industrialists and politicians cut from letters; letters by Sir C. V. Loraine, 1848, J. Bruce Pryce, 1868, and the Marquis of Bute, 1873; press cuttings; and facsimiles of autographs.

Awdl gan Nicander

  • NLW MS 3423D.
  • File
  • 1841

Awdl y Gwanwyn, written by Morris Williams (Nicander) (1809-1874) and sent by him, with a letter, to Ellis Owen, Cefnymeusydd (1789-1868), 1841.

Williams, Morris, 1809-1874

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