Notes, extracts, etc., by E. R. Horsfall Turner from various printed sources including [A. H.] Dodd: The Industrial Revolution in North Wales [( Cardiff, 1933)]; [Edward] Hamer [:A Brief Account of the] Chartist Outbreak [at Llanidloes in the year 1839 (Llanidloes, 1867)]; [J. L. and B.] Hammond: The Age of the Chartists, 1832-54 [(London, 1930)]; History of the Chartists and the Bloodless Wars of Montgomeryshire (Welshpool, N.D.); various numbers of the Shrewsbury Chronicle and Salopian journal for the year 1839, etc. The material was probably collected in the course of research work on Chartism in co. Montgomery.
Journey notes and observations, 1766-1787, including notes from visits to London and Birmingham in 1766 concerning the manufacture of pig and bar iron. The notes contain the names and addresses of businessmen and details of their work, and notes on lead imports and exports in London. Also included are notes on forge processes at a foundry in Bristol, 1787, and observations on water wheels.
'Ephemeris', being a list of sermon texts, etc. and of the places at which they were delivered, 1775-1794, by Thomas Morgan; most of the sermons were preached at Morley, Yorkshire, while others were delivered at Henllan and elsewhere in Wales. The sermons bear the serial numbers 3484 to 5572.
Speeches and addresses; adjudications; statistics, press cuttings, and notes concerning Calvinistic Methodism in Liverpool and district, 1838-1851; and a few religious poems.
A pocket book containing sermon notes in Welsh ? by, and in the hand of, [the Reverend] Lewis Williams, Wesleyan minister, London, whose name, with the date 27 September 1842, appears on a fly-leaf at the beginning of the volume. The last page bears the date 1 July 1846. Miscellaneous memoranda in English have been inserted on a few pages.
A copy of Charges delivered by the Hon. Mr. Justice Coleridge in the Shire Hall of the County of Cumberland at the Spring Assizes for the year 1840, on Friday, the 21st of February ... and of A Charge delivered to the Grand Jury at the Assizes for the Town and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne by the Hon. Sir John Taylor Coleridge, February 26 1847, with a letter, 11 April 1840, from the author to Sir Harford Jones Brydges.
A manuscript of John Henry Scourfield: The Grand Serio-Comic Opera of Lord Bateman and his Sophia ..., which was first published at the Middle Hill Press, Cheltenham in 1863 and afterwards in London in 1865.
Some eighty letters, 1971-1976 (including some transcripts and copies) from John Barnard Jenkins to various correspondents, including Sarah Erskine and Ned Thomas (25), Robat Gruffudd and Elwyn Ioan (14) and Cyril Hodges (27). The letters were written during his imprisonment for offences including the possession of explosives and causing explosions and some were published in Williams, Rhodri (ed.): John Jenkins, Prison Letters (Tal-y-bont, 1981).
An annotated interleaved copy of T. [N]. Parker's Remarks on the Malt Tax: with reference to the debate in the House of Commons on the 10th March 1835, and in defence of the farmers and maltsters against the injurious effects of misrepresentations and misprints, and the indiscreet kindness of some of their friends. Shrewsbury, 1835; with a covering circular and cuttings from the Salopian Journal.
'Maxims on the political, social, and domestic economy of the English country gentleman in his public and individual capacity', written in 1823 by Thomas Netherton Parker, Sweeney [Hall, near Oswestry]'.
Includes two group portraits taken outside a country house by Peters, Photographer of Oswestry; carte de visite of Robertson, consul in China (possibly Sir Daniel Brooke Robertson, consul in Canton, 1864); an un-named steam locomotive made at the Atlas Works, Manchester in 1861 (possibly no 1297); a panorama taken at Garthmyl, Otago, New Zealand.
Miscellaneous printed, typescript, and manuscript material, August - September 1939, relating to plans for the reception of evacuees from Liverpool at Aberystwyth.
