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Timothy Davis (of Coventry and Evesham) Manuscripts, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
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Journal

Volume IX of the series of journals written by Timothy Davis, covering the years 1847-1849. The volume had been previously used by his brother, David Davis, and contains copies of letters sent by the latter to Lord Brougham and others when his mind was deranged.

Letters of David Davis, Neath,

A letter-book of David Davis of Neath containing 'Copies of letters posted by me at Gloucester [Asylum] February 27, 1838, in the order in which they were originally written, abed, between January 19 and February 9th inclusive, bearing the same date, viz. that of the day in which they were put into ye post office'. The letters were written to Lord Lyndhurst [John Singleton Copley], Sir Robert Peel, Dr Eliot (Neath), Lord [Henry] Brougham, the Marquis of Bute [John Crichton-Stuart], Lord [Patrick] James [Herbert Crichton-]Stuart, the Bishop of Bangor, Viscount Melbourne [William Lamb, Prime Minister], Lord John Russell, his brother Timothy Davis (Evesham), his father, David Davis (Castell Hywel), his daughter Jennet, his cousin Timothy Davis (Oldbury), W[illiam] Bruce Knight, Taliesin Williams ('Taliesin ab Iolo') and several others.

Davis, David, 1778-1846.