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Miscellaneous correspondence including holograph letters from J[ames] C[olquhoun Campbell, bishop of] Bangor, from Bangor, to the Reverend W. J. [? William John] Beamont [? fellow of Trinity College and vicar of the parish of St. Michael's, Cambridge], 1861-1862 (2) (the writer's willingness to advocate the cause of the Additional Curates Society at Cambridge, the appropriate allowance for a pensioner at Cambridge University), and Chief Justice [by inference, Sir William Bovill], 1869 (social); J[ohn] B[anks Jenkinson, bishop of] St. Davids, from Abergwilly, to [ ], 1827 ( personal postal matters); W[illiam] Basil [Tickell Jones, bishop of] St. Davids, from Abergwili Palace, to [ ], 1876 (personal); Alfred Ollivant [professor of Divinity], Trinity College [Cambridge, aft. bishop of Llandaff], to [ ], 1844 (instructions re studies); Tho[ma]s V[owler Short, bishop of] St. Asaph, from St. Asaph, to [Henry Montagu Villiers], bishop of Carlisle, 1859 (? an accident to the writer); and C[onnop Thirlwall, bishop of] St. Davids, from Abergwili Palace, to the Reverend Dr. [? John William] Donaldson, 1858 (doubts as to his ability to attend at the election of the classical examiner, his belief that no candidate would be equal to recipient).

Extracts relating to Flintshire from William Beamont (ed.): A Literal Extension and Translation of the portion of Domesday Book relating to Cheshire and Lancashire and to parts of Flintshire and Denbighshire ... 1863, with emendations based largely on James Tait (ed.): The Domesday Survey of Cheshire (Chetham Society Publications, Vol. 75, New Series, 1916).