Notebook, 1749-1777, of Samuel Deykin of Carmarthen, including a journal of his travels to London and Barnsley, March-June 1950; an imaginary journal for 1746, had Charles Edward Stuart acceded to the throne (ff. 11-16); topical verse, miscellaneous notes and memoranda, and religious meditations.
Deykin, Samuel.
Letters to and from Hugh Howard,
Rhan oWigfair manuscripts
Twenty-four holograph or autograph letters to and from Hugh Howard [brother of Robert Howard of Conway, the recipient of the letters contained in the previous manuscript, NLW MS 12426E]. (a) Six holograph letters, 1732-1737, bearing no addresses, from Hugh Howard in Tellicherry [India], 1. to his 'Dear Brother' [? Robert Howard of Conway], 1732 (family affairs, the writer's troubles with his superior officers in India, the possibility of his buying Griffith Williams's estate), 2. to [? Mrs. Gifford], 1733/4 (congratulations ? on her marriage, a gift of a set of china ware), 3. to his 'Dear Brother' [? Robert Howard as previously], 1733/4 (gifts sent to recipient and other persons named), 4. to his brother Rob[ert] Howard, 1737 (news of writer's acquaintances in India, recipient's intended purchase of land), 5. to Mrs. Gifford, 1737 (personal), 6. to Mrs. Howard [? his brother's wife], 1737 (personal). (b) Eighteen holograph or autograph letters to Hugh Howard, 1736-1746, most of them addressed to him in Bombay, from Ynyr Burges, East India House [London], 1746 (goods and a cask of arrack sent to England by Howard, news of events in Europe and in Britain including the crushing of the [Stuart] rebellion and the flight of the pretender's son to France, news of changes and rumoured changes affecting the personnel of the [East India] Company), Francesco Dias, Callicutt [India], 1743 (2) (personal, commercial transactions), Thomas Dorrill, Buss[orah, in the Persian Gulf], 1745 (1 + dup.) (commercial and financial), Rog[er] Kinsey, Surat [India], 1745/6 ( financial and commercial), Stephen Law, London, 1745/6 (financial), Tho[mas] Phillips, London, 1743 (military activity in Europe and the West Indies, the desertion of some two hundred soldiers of a Scotch regiment brought to London, news of friends and acquaintances), ?Domingos Rodrigues, Tellicherry [India], 1743-1746 (6 + 1 dup.) (financial and commercial [two of these letters are endorsed with English translations of the Portuguese originals]), Edward Ward, London, 1745 (personal, comments on the [Stuart] rebellion of 1745 a threatened invasion of England being prepared at Dunkirk), and M. Wynne, Bodysgallan, 1736-1737 (2) (family news, thanks for presents).
Hugh Howard and others.
Historical and literary scrapbook,
Large scrapbook of historical and literary material comprising notes and transcripts relating to the history of France, 1748-1772, and to Prince Charles, Kevenhuller and Prince Esterhazy, 1743; a list of European rulers and wars fought by Britain between 1739 and 1780; notes and copies of documents relating to the activities and executions of prominent Jacobites, 1745-1752; copies of letters from and to Lord Bath concerning the Shrewsbury election [post-1741]; a poem entitled Arma Virumque Cano on General Hawley 's defeat in Scotland; a list of those who voted against the bill for suspending the Habeas Corpus Act, 1746; notes on the history of Italy; Denbigh election results; and an account in French of Willem Bentinck 's part in the appointment of William IV of Orange as Stadtholder of Holland, 1747.