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- 1813 (Creation)
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Ten holograph letters, August-September 1813, from [Lady] M[aria] J[osepha] S[tanley] from Parkgate and Winnington, to [her husband] Sir John Tho[ma]s Stanley, [7th] bart. [later baron Stanley of Alderley, co. Chester], at Chester and Penrhos, co. Anglesey (personal and family news, news of acquaintances, financial matters, the appointment of [Robert] Southey as poet laureate, references to the war in Europe, e.g., the Austrian manifesto, the wounding of General Moreau, a proposed blockade of Tortosa, affairs in Sicily, etc., an invitation to recipient to attend a meeting at Manchester in connection with a society for converting Jews).
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- English
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English.
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The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 12886D.
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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April 2010.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS