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- 1784-1885. (Creation)
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Autograph letters, 1784-1885, including letters to Frances (Fanny) Williams Wynn from her mother, her brothers Charles and Henry, her sisters Henrietta and Charlotte, Hester Cotton and Mary Cunliffe, to Jonathan Shipley (bishop of St Asaph) from William Henry Cavendish Bentinck (third duke of Portland), and to William Davies Shipley (dean of St Asaph) from Philip Yorke and William Cleaver (bishop of St Asaph); papers relating to the private theatre at Wynnstay; a note in the autograph of Sarah Ponsonby, one of the 'ladies of Llangollen'; etc.
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English.
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This description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume I (Aberystwyth, 1943).
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Formerly known as Trevor Owen 17.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 2787D.
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- Wynnstay Estate (Wales) (Subject)
- Williams-Wynn, Frances, 1773-1857 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Williams-Wynn, Frances, 1773-1857 (Subject)
- Williams-Wynn, Charlotte Lady, 1754-1832 (Subject)
- Wynn, Charles Watkin Williams, 1775-1850 (Subject)
- Williams-Wynn, Henry Watkin, Sir, 1783-1856 (Subject)
- Cholmondeley, Henrietta Elizabeth, 1780-1852 (Subject)
- Shipley, Charlotte (Subject)
- Cotton, Hester Maria, of Combermere Abbey (Subject)
- Williams-Wynn, Mary, d. 1838 (Subject)
- Shipley, Jonathan, 1714-1788 (Subject)
- Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809 (Subject)
- Shipley, William Davies, 1745-1826 (Subject)
- Cleaver, William, 1742-1815 (Subject)
- Ponsonby, Sarah, 1755-1831 (Subject)
- Yorke, Philip, 1743-1804 (Subject)