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A volume of 'Unpublished Letters from Joanna Southcott, To her Friends And various other persons. Collected by Gwilym Owain. Vol. V', the letters belonging to the years 1802 and 1803. The manuscript has 'MSS TRACTS' '5' in gold on the spine. The contents, a list of which is to be found at the beginning of the volume, are transcripts of letters, mainly from Joanna Southcott to the following persons: J. E. Field; the Reverend Stanhope Bruce; Ben Hadad, [London]; W[illiam] Sharp; [Richard] Brothers; [Beilby Porteus], Bishop of London; [Elias] Carpenter; [Nathaniel Brassey] Halhed; and the Reverend Mr. Wood, Lisson Green. Some of the letters have been written from Old-swinford and short letters from the Reverend Thos. P. Foley are appended to four of them. There is also a letter from Thos. P. Foley to W[illiam] Sharp and another from Geo[rge] Turner, Leeds, to E. T. Field with copies of letters from Turner to Lord Pelham and to [Henry Addington], Chancellor of the Exchequer. A loose leaf within the volume, in the hand of William Owen [-Pughe], would appear to contain an index of subjects connected with the Joanna Southcott material.

A volume of 'Unpublished Letters of Joanna Southcott, collected by Gwilym Owain. Vol. VIII', being letters dated 1803 and 1804. The manuscript has 'LETTERS' '8' in gold on the spine. A list of contents is to be found at the beginning of the volume, listing transcripts of letters from Joanna Southcott at Leeds to the following: E[lias] Carpenter (4); W[illiam] Sharp (2); [Jane] Townley; E. J. Field; Mr . [ ] Abbot; and Mr. [ ] Ingall; there are also letters from the Reverend Tho. P. Foley to Mr. [? E. J. ] Field and to [William] Sharp; pp. 99-104, a communication 'On Jon[athan] Priestley's being deceived by an evil spirit - from Leeds: Feb. 8. 1804', and pp. 105-112, 'January 12th 1804 Part of the Decrees of the Lord, in which the Lists of Names were sealed', which bears the name George Turner. Loose within the volume is a newspaper cutting dated 11 July 1927 which records the opening of a 'Joanna Southcott box'.

Transcripts of miscellaneous items of prose and verse by Joanna Southcott, dated 1796-1813, transcribed by William Owen [-Pughe] in 1810-1815 and 1820, some from the book of W. T. H[arwood]. The manuscript has 'LETTERS' '10' in gold on the spine. The contents are: pp. 1-18, 'A Communication to shew the Difference between the Anger of the Almighty and The Anger of a finite Creature'; pp. 19-23, 'On the rejection of our Saviour by the Jews as the Messiah they looked for '; pp. 24-28, 'The Thanksgiving Day Dec. 3. 1805'; p. 29, 'An explanation in part of Rev. XII'; pp. 30-32, 'A Communication on the Fast Day in 1797, in answer to Pomeroy'; pp. 33-44, 'Scripture Prophecies of the end' (2 Oct. 1808); pp. 45-48, 'Illumination for Peace, Oct. 17. 1797'; p. 48, 'A Parable Oct. 21. 1797'; pp. 49-50, 'A Victory over the Dutch'; pp. 50-57, 'Easter Sunday, 1797'; pp. 57-63, 'A Communication given Nov. 25. 1810'; p. 64, 'A Communication to G. Turner: Dec. 2. 1810'; pp. 65-67, 'A Communication, announcing Joanna's return to this world after her death, given in 1796'; pp. 67-68, another communication on the same topic (2 July 1796); p. 69, 'A Communication given to George Turner, Jan. 3d. 1813'; pp. 71-72, lines of verse, beginning wanting, transcribed 24 Feb. 1820; pp. 73- 81, 'Wisdom excelleth the Weapons of War'; pp. 89-96. 'A Communication on Joanna's Portrait being drawn by W. Sharp to be engraved'; pp. 97-98, 'The Comet which appeared in Sept. and Oct. 1811 . . .'; pp. 98-111, 'A Communication in answer to Mr. Baker - on the power of Buonaparte and on the Comet'; pp. 112-23, 'The Two Witnesses. Jan. 1812'; pp. 123-6, 'On the Death of Mr. Cheese'; pp. 126-32, 'A Communication on the Discovery of the Imposture of Ann Moore'; pp. 133-42, 'A Communication . . . in answer to those who stumble at the sealing . . . ' (18 July 1813); pp. 143-8, 'A Communication on the Second Sealing to continue from Sept. 2. 1807 to Sept. 2. 1808'; and pp. 148-50, 'A Communication concerning W. T. Harwood', (apparently incomplete).