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Sarah Ponsonby: A Journey in Wales

Journal of Sarah Ponsonby, 10 May-25 June 1778, entitled 'Account of a Journey in Wales perform'd in May 1778 by Two Fugitive Ladies', recounting the arrival of herself and Lady Eleanor Butler in Pembrokeshire and their subsequent travels in Wales and Shropshire, including first impressions of Llangollen (f. 11) and a watercolour view of Benton Castle signed by the Ladies (f. 1 verso).

Journal of Elinor Goddard

Journal, 1774-1778, of Elinor Goddard (née Shuldham, referred to as Lucy Goddard in Eva Mary Bell's The Hamwood Papers), recording mainly events of personal interest, including the attempts by Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby to escape from their homes in Ireland during April 1778 (ff. 56-60).

Goddard, Elinor

Eleanor Butler: Diary

Diary of Lady Eleanor Butler for 1784, including comments on the weather, visitors, letters received and books acquired and read.

Journal of Elinor Goddard

Journal, 1782-1788, of Elinor Goddard (née Shuldham), recording mainly events of personal interest, including two visits by her to Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby at Llangollen in 1782 and 1787 (ff. 2 verso, 83 verso-84).

Goddard, Elinor

Sarah Ponsonby: Commonplace book

Commonplace book of Sarah Ponsonby, 1785-1789, including gardening notes; verse in French, Italian and English; sketches and designs; ground floor plan of Plasnewydd (f. 41); expenses of building the dairy (ff. 2-3); and miscellaneous notes.

Eleanor Butler: Journal

Journal of Lady Eleanor Butler, January 1788-January 1791, chiefly recording details of the weather, visitors, books read, correspondence and local events.

Plasnewydd Library Catalogue

A catalogue, 1792, probably in the hand of Sarah Ponsonby, of books at Plasnewydd belonging to her and to Lady Eleanor Butler, comprising both a subject classification (ff. 3-92) and location list (ff. 93-131).

Medical recipes

Medical recipes compiled and transcribed, [1790s], by Sarah Ponsonby, acquired from friends of herself and Lady Eleanor Butler.

Ponsonby, Sarah, 1755-1831

Eleanor Butler: Journal

Journal of Lady Eleanor Butler, 17 May-12 July 1799, including a list of visitors to Plasnewydd.

Eleanor Butler: Journal

Journal of Lady Eleanor Butler, 1 January-27 March 1802, including a list of visitors to Plasnewydd, medical recipes and a book-list.

Heraldry

Notebook containing coats of arms of various English and Irish families probably drawn and coloured, [c. 1801], by Sarah Ponsonby.

Ponsonby, Sarah, 1755-1831

Mary Tighe: Psyche

A volume copied, March 1804, for Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby by Mary Tighe containing a transcript of the latter's poem Psyche, published in 1805, and of verses written to her by Thomas Moore.

Tighe, Mary, 1772-1810.

Letters from a traveller

A volume containing transcripts, [c. 1804-1805], probably by Lady Eleanor Butler, of two letters, 1801-1802, from a traveller recounting his experiences in Jerusalem (cf. NLW MS 22982C) and Paris, including a meeting with Napoleon Buonaparte.

Letters from a traveller

A volume containing transcripts, [c. 1805-1806], probably by Sarah Ponsonby, of letters, 1800-1804, from a traveller recounting his experiences in Jerusalem (cf. NLW MS 22981B), Moscow, India and Cairo.

'Disparition de Buonaparte'

Transcript, 1814, probably in the hand of Lady Eleanor Butler, of the fourth edition of a poem in French entitled 'Les On. Disparition de Buonaparte'.

Butler, Eleanor, Lady, 1739-1829

Poetry

  • NLW MS 22979C [RESTRICTED ACCESS]
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Transcripts, [18/19 cent.], in the hand of Sarah Ponsonby, of an incomplete and apparently unpublished verse drama entitled 'Love's Frenzy, or the Garlands of the Faun', and of poems, bearing dates of composition between 1777 and 1779, some of them by the same anonymous author; illustrated with monochrome watercolour drawings, also probably by Sarah Ponsonby.

Eleanor Butler: Journal

Journal of Lady Eleanor Butler, 1 January-31 December 1821, including newspaper cuttings and medical recipes.

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