One of two volumes of an account of a tour from London through North and Mid Wales, 1810.

One of two volumes of an account of a tour from London through North and Mid Wales, 1810.

An account, in diary form [? by John Lloyd of Hafodunos], of a journey via Oswestry, Salop, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham to London, 4-10 April 1811, and of the writer's social and other activities in that city, 10 April-3 May. There are references to, inter alia, meals taken with Sir Joseph Banks and his family in Soho Square, the company at Sir Joseph's house, dinners at the Royal Society Club with names of members present, an introduction to Mr. [John] Pond, the recently appointed astronomer royal, conversations with bishop [Samuel] Goodenough of Carlisle concerning [ William] Aitoun's work Hortus Kewiensis, with Mr. [?Jesse] Foote concerning medical matters, and with Mr. [Thomas Andrew] Knight on horticultural topics, an account by Sir [William] Sidney Smith of some French officers he had known and of engagements at Acre and Mount Carmel, attendances at lectures [on electricity] given by Mr. [George John] Singer, comments by l'Abbe de Vey on [Hyman] Hurwitz's work on Hebrew grammar, information from Governor [William] Bligh ['Bligh of the Bounty', who had been Governor of New South Wales, 1805-?1808] about the impending court martial concerning the 'Port Jackson Business', and the proof sheets of Mr . [John] Farey's report on Derbyshire.

Notebook of Anne Jenkins containing an account of her journey to London with her cousin to attend a 'short course of instruction at the science and art department South Kensington', July 1888; a short account of her holiday at Leominster with her cousin Jane Williams, Derigaron, [Tregaron], June and July 1890; and an account of a visit to London, May-June 1896.

A typed transcript, 1948, of the memoirs and journal of Thomas Jones, Pencerrig, recounting his life in London, France and especially Italy during the second half of the eighteenth century. It was copied from another typescript (then owned by C. L. Evan-Thomas) of the original manuscript (now NLW MS 23812D).
The volume broadly covers the period from the 1760s to December 1783, with a final entry by Jones at Pencerrig, November 1798 (ff. 303-304). The main text is typed on the rectos only, with Jones' original notes reproduced on the facing versos. Facsimile copies of a sketch of Mt Vesuvius and a plan of Jones’ lodgings in Naples in 1780, apparently redrafted by the creator of the initial typescript, have been inserted after ff. 168 and 201.

Holograph letters mainly addressed to John Jones, Junior, of Wrexham, etc., together with a few miscellaneous papers. The writers include Ka. Jones, his step-mother, [16]66-67/8 (2) (a journey to London, the return to St. Albons, the meaning of the recipient's and his wife's letters, personal, the writer's spinning wheel) (together with a Biblical commentary written in the blank spaces of one letter); H[ugh] C[ourtney] [16]66 (spiritual experiences); Tho. Jones, London, 1668-1684 (2) (the arrest of the drover John Rouland at Epping fair, cousin Robert Wynne in Ireland) (the one endorsed with sermon notes, the other mutilated); Humfrey (Humphrey) Jones to his step-son John Jones and to his step-daughter Mrs. Mary Jones, Bryn y ffynnon house in Wrexham, [16]83-1684 (2) (the health of Mary Jones, the trial of Collonell Sydney, personal, news of friends); Tho. Major, London, to his sister [? Mary Jones], 1684 (family news; Mora Abbott, the Camp at Dundalke, to Humphrey Jones, London, 1689 (military actions in Ireland); J. Humphrey to [ ], 1689 (the appointment of cousin John Jones to the shrievalty of [Merioneth]); Jo. Jones, from Glascoed, to his wife Mary Jones in Cheapside, 1689/90 (3), and from Chester to Mrs. Anne Edwards, Keelhendrey, 1708/9 (the shrievalty of Merioneth, the Assize sermon, etc., the Pretender's attempted invasion of Scotland); [Sir] Wi[lliam] Williams [1st bart.], Greys Inn, to Hugh Jones, St. John Street, [16]92 (the payment of 'brin y ffynnon' rent) (together with a receipt); Richard Jones, nephew of John Jones, [16]95 (desiring his interest with cousin John Maddackes); Hugh Pyers, Mertyn-ysglan, 1695 (a copy of the Duke of York's conveyances); Cad. Wynne, Dublin, [16]97 (the sale of the writer's patent for the office of 'Cheefe seriant at Armes' in Ireland); Richd. Simpson, Poulton, near Lanc[aste]r, 1697 (money due upon a bond); John Billingsley, London, [16]97 (the election of the Elector of Saxony to be King of Poland, military preparations and actions at Namur and Barcelona, the escape of the English E[ast] India ship 'The Tavistock'); Richard Vaughan, Dolegwin and Cors-y-gedol, [16]97/8-1699 (2) (personal, the completion of designs) (the earlier letter endorsed with a note of moeny left in a bag brought from Chester by Owen Prichard, and a note of washing left at Mallwyd 1697/8); Jo'n Davies [1700] (money matters, the recipient's father's quondam concerns in Ireland) (fragment); Jonath. Edwards, Jes[us] Coll[ege], Oxford, 1706/7 (the writer's book - 'a preseruatiue against Socinianisme', references to Dr. King of Merton College); Jonathan Jones, Wrexh[am], 1712 (the duel between the Duke of 'Hambelton' [Hamilton] and Lord Mohun, news of the war between Sweden and Denmark); [?Isaac] Manley, Dublin, 1712/13 (Mr. Davis's answer); U. Bridgeman, Blod[well], niece of John Jones, undated (thanks for wine, personal); and F[rances] E[dwards], niece of John Jones, undated (news of the writer's sister). Also bound in the volume are a bond, 1675/6, from Joseph Mould, distiller, and John Jones, gentleman, both of Wrexham, to William Jones of the same, gentleman, for the payment of £10; a list of persons to be offered for sheriff of Merioneth, 1683; and an undated list, in the hand of John Jones, Junior, of family title-deeds and papers, 1659-1696 and undated.

Journal, 1717-1737, of Sir Erasmus Philipps, some entries relating to as early as 1705, containing a description of a tour in 1717 through counties Carmarthen and Brecon and the south-west of England to London; an account of his residence at Pembroke College, Oxford, 1720-1722; and entries relating to his family, his participation in his father's religious and philanthropic work and, following his election in 1726, his activities as Member of Parliament for the borough of Haverfordwest.

The file comprises letters from Eirene White to her parents. The early letters are written from Somerville College, Oxford, and describe her academic life and a wide range of social pursuits and activities. Later letters were written during travels in the United Kingdom and trips abroad; they include letters from Cumberland, London, New York, Virginia, Hamilton, Ontario, Boston and various places in Germany. Most of the letters are full and describe travels and events in some detail.

Forty-one holograph letters, etc., 1769-1813, from John Lloyd from Oxford, Dublin, London, Bewdley, Brussells, Calais, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Worcester, and Wygfair, and on board the Courageux at Spit Head, addressed to Mr. Brittain, Chester, 1793 (instructions relating to the handling of cases containing inter alia a clock and instruments sent from London to Wygfair), Mr. Jones, Wygfair, St. Asaph, 1795-1797 (2) (description of conditions on a voyage from Holyhead to Dublin, the taking over of a gold mine [in Ireland] by the government to prevent the peasants working it, an intended visit to Mr. Mills's house at the copper mine at Cronbane, a stay with Sir Joseph Banks in London, the writer's presentation to the King and Queen, speculation as to the outcome of negotiations between the ambassadors from France and Lord Malmsbury), Mr. Nat. Jones, Wickwer, Denbigh, 1789 [? the same person as the Mr. Jones of the two previous letters] (personal, a visit to Brussells and a meeting with the Abbe Mann, a proposed trip to Paris, details as to the terms, conditions, etc., of education in the convent at St. Omers), 'Dear Nat', 1791 [? the same person as the Nat. Jones of the previous letter] (personal, news of acquaintances, plans in connection with a proposed trip to the island of Shetland with Sir Thomas Dundas in Sir Thomas's yacht to inspect land belonging to Sir Thomas for copper, the said land being adjacent to ground on which copper had already been found), Mrs. [Dorothea] Lloyd, [writer's mother, Soughton near Northop and Hafodunos, 1769-1784 (16) (personal, family and estate affairs, financial matters, a receipt for money received from the Rev. William Conway as one of the executors of the will of Mrs. Eliza Conway, observations made by the writer and a friend in Bewdley on the comet and his keen interest in the science of optics though not to the neglect of his business (1769), impressions of London and places and persons seen ( 1770), a visit to the Herald's office [in London] to examine the pedigree of the Lloyds of Havodunos and comments on the said pedigree (1770), the cost of a new coach and harness, a visit to Calais and thence in Mr. Shuttleworth's yacht to Amsterdam and Antwerp and some account of activities in these places (1777), plans for a proposed trip to Bruxelles (1777), a stay with Sir John Cope at Bromshill, Hants. (1778), a visit to Spit Head to witness the King's review of the fleet (1778), a Snowdon expedition (1778), the writer's belief that all were 'to be ruined in Wales by a scheme of our diabolical cursed Ministers . . . to inclose all the waste lands in Wales for the Benefit of the Crown solely' (1778), a violent gale which had struck the ships of the fleet at Spithead where the writer was on board the Courageux (1781)), Howell Lloyd [the writer's father], Soughton near Northop and Hafodunos, 1770-1776 and undated (4) (personal, arrangements for a journey to Llangernew (1770), the price of clover and trefoil, bequests made by Sir John Wynne (1773), an account of proceedings of a commission to determine whether Mrs. S[ ] Lloyd was a lunatic and matters arising there from (1776)), the Rev. J. Conway Potter, 1801 (2) (the death of the writer's mother [Mrs. Dorothea Lloyd]), the Rev. Rice Pugh, Llysfaen, Carnarvon, 1796 (a request that recipient would deny reports that he was going to vote against Sir Robert Williams after promising to vote for him [? in the Caernarvonshire parliamentary election, though the letter is dated 8 June whilst the election date is given as 7 June in W. R. Williams, Parl. Hist. Wales and other returns), John Lloyd Salusbury, Galtf . . . aenan, 1813 (suggestions relating to the act for inclosing lands in the parish of St. Asaph), Sir George Shuckburgh [who later adopted the additional name of Evelyn], Margate, 1784 (a balloon ascent by [Vincenzo] Lunardi), Mr. [John] Topham [treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries], undated (the intended resignation of the writer from the Society [of Antiquaries], a complaint that he had not been receiving copies of the society's publications, mention of talks or correspondence with Mr. [William] Norris [secretary of the society], a recommendation on behalf of Dr. [? Thomas] Meredith [for membership] signed by the writer [see N.L.W. MS. 12420]) (copy?), Sir W[atkin] W[illiams] Wynne, 1795 (the stewardship of the lordship of D[enbigh]) (draft copy), the gentlemen, clergy, and freeholders of the county of Flint, 1796-1799 (2) (offering his services as parliamentary candidate for the county in 1796, his resignation as parliamentary representative of the county in 1799) (draft copies), the Commissioners of the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Denbigh, 1797 (the writer's resignation of his commission as a lieutenant in the supplementary militia of the county and the reasons for his action) (copy), a copy of an application by Lloyd for 'such an Office as will vacate my Seat for the county of Flint' in 1799 [? a copy of his application for the Chiltern Hundreds]), and five incomplete or fragmentary letters.

Fifty-five holograph letters addressed to Abraham Howell at Welshpool and in London (1) by various members of his family, 1835-1845 and undated. The writers include Edward Howell [recipient's brother], Shrewsbury, Quatt, Collingbourn, Bontdolgadfan, Towyn and Carshalton, 1837-1841 (12) (personal and family news, the writer's activities as an excise officer in the Quatt- Bridgnorth area [co. Salop] and in the Collingbourn area [co. Wilts.], his posting to the Croydon excise district, comments on his health, lodgings, acquaintances, etc., a visit to [their sister] Ellen who was at school in Minsterley [co. Salop] (1837), the writer's plans to have Ellen to live with him at Carshalton, a visit to London and wonder at seeing a 'Diving Bell', a visit to Windsor and a sight of the Queen and Prince Albert (1841)), Eleanor Howell [recipient's sister], Minsterley [co. Salop], 1838-1839 (2 ) (personal, mention of the Llanidloes rioters, hopes that there would be no attack on her parents), Elinor Howell [recipient's mother], Llanbryn- mair and [Y] Drefnewydd, 1835-1841 (5) (personal and family affairs, the sending of [recipient's sister] Elinor to school in [y] dref newidd in 1835, the need to speak to the steward about wainwen, concern about an impending visit by recipient and his wife in 1840 and the inadequate state of the house, worry because [recipient's brother] Samuel was not settling down in his job in Newtown) (one of the letters is endorsed with a note from S[amuel] Howell from Newtown, 1839), Geo[rge] Howell [recipient's brother], Machynlleth and Liverpool, 1839-1841 and undated (11) (personal, copying work undertaken for recipient at Machynlleth, the writer's office employment in Liverpool), Lewis Howell [recipient's brother], Cincinnati [America], 1841 (recipient's marriage, reflections on the married state and on the death of the writer's wife), Samuel Howell [recipient's brother], Newtown, Carshalton, London and Bont[dolgadfan], 1839-1845 (17) (personal, family affairs, a request to recipient to buy specified medical and scientific books for the writer (1839), the writer's employment in druggist stores in Newtown and London, his unfavourable impressions of London and the English, a bad report (1842) on the flannel trade [in Llanbryn-mair], a proposed move to a shop in Brighton in 1844), and W[illiam] and E[linor] Howell [recipient's parents], Llanbrynmair, 1836-1839 and undated (7) (personal and family affairs, news from America of [recipient's brother] Lewis, of the illness of Lewis's wife, and of the death of recipient's uncle Edward Bebb, mention of other emigrants to America, a visit to London by [recipient's cousin] John Robearts [sic] who, in company with Evan [Howell, recipient's brother], had visited the Houses of Parliament and heard [Daniel] O'Conel [sic] making a speech [1836], the purchase of £130 worth of wool by recipient's father, straitened financial circumstances, the [flannel] factory at Llanbrynmair, condemnation of alcoholic drinks (including verses on this theme), the poor harvest prospects in 1839, and a request for information concerning the leasing of Geselddu farm).

Fifty-eight holograph letters addressed to the Reverend John Conway Potter at Hafodunos, at Em[m]anuel College, Cambridge, and at Soughton or Soughton Grove, Northop, by [the Reverend] R[obert] Potter [schoolmaster at Scarning, co. Norfolk, 1761-1789, canon of Norwich cathedral, 1788-1804, vicar of Lowestoft, 1789-1804] from Scarning, Norwich, and Lowestoft, 1778-1801 (progress made by the writer with his 'new Edition of Aeschylus' which was to be published the following February [The Tragedies of Aeschylus. Translated, Norwich, 4to edition, 1777. Another edition, London, 8vo, in 1779], the notes [on the tragedies of Aeschylus] which had been sent to Mr. Mountain and were being published by the [Cambridge] University Press, an eight day stay in London with visits to Vaux Hall, the Haymarket Theatre, and Kensington Gardens, and rambles from painter to painter, the painting of Jack's [? John Potter, the writer's son] picture by Mr. [William] Doughty described as 'a very pretty young man at Sir Joshua Reynolds', a head of the writer [painted] by [George] Romney, Romney's wish to exhibit this picture in his gallery, an intended 'attack on Euripides', the recipient's visit to Dublin, advice to recipient to pursue his studies (1778); a legal action in which the writer was involved ? relating to the rectory of Badgworth, trouble at Scarning [? school] 'from little and great Masters and their Papas and Mammas', the deaths of five of the seven trustees [? of Scarning school] and a request by 'Mr. Lombe, our new Lord' that the trust be renewed, news from Mr. Hopkins of Tenby concerning a legacy due to ? recipient and his sisters, expectations of being moved from Scarning, work on Euripides the first volume of which was advertised in December [The Tragedies of Euripides. Translated, 1781], an accident to the writer when his horses shied and his chaise overturned (1779); the death of 'a great man' from whom the writer had hopes of preferment, ? sarcastic comments on recipient's lack of opportunity to hunt and his presence at Chester races, legacies bequeathed by the writer's sister-in-law, the death of the writer's sister at Frome and his visit to Frome ? in connection with the estate, the Puddimore estates (1780); Dr. [ ] Parr's civility to recipient, affairs at Puddimore, the bishop's [? Philip Young, bishop of Norwich] recovery, the writer's hopes that he would be able to fix his son in curacies near himself, the young man's ordination at Norwich [probably the son] and his acceptance of a curacy at Southwold on the Suffolk coast, the death of Lady L'Estrange [? Lady Mary, widow of Sir Henry L'Estrange, 6th bart. of Hunstanton, co. Norfolk] (1781); the recipient's intention of taking orders, expenses in connection with ?the Puddimore estate, comments on the ancestors of the Lloyd family of Havodynos, the institution of [the Reverend] John Crofts to the vicarage of Bradenham [co. Norfolk], a law suit between Mr. Crofts and [Mr.] Betts at Thetford [co. Norfolk] assizes ( 1782); the marriage of the writer's cousin Eliza, reflections on the attitudes of bishops who had tender consciences when a young man omitted 'any trifling and insignificant circumstance', but who were themselves in the habit of being absent from their dioceses in town in the winter and at some watering place in summer, estates held by Mrs. Daltera 'of the rectory of Badgworth', a proposed valuation of estates held by the writer and recipient at Puddimore (1783); electioneering activity in co. Norfolk, involving Sir John Wodehouse [6th bart. of Kimberley, co. Norfolk, later 1st baron Wodehouse of Kimberley, co. Norfolk] and Sir Ed[ward] Astley [4th bart. of Melton Constable, co. Norfolk], who were elected as members for the county, and Mr. [? Thomas William] Coke [of Holkham, co. Norfolk, successful candidate in 1780], who withdrew from the contest, the death of the writer's daughter, benefices obtained by John Crofts and [ ] Paley, the marriage of the writer's son to 'his Mrs. Sheldrake' (1784); a visit by the writer to London to try to get some of the money due for Euripides on which occasion he had seen [Francois] Blanchard ascend in his balloon, Mrs. [Sarah] Siddons playing Rosalind [in 'As You Like It'], and Sir Joshua [Reynolds's] painting of Venus, a reference to the writer's work entitled An Inquiry into some passages in Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Poets . . . which he had published two years previously, comments on Dr. Johnson's character and his critical ability, the publishing of the writer's two odes The Oracle concerning Babylon [and the Song of Exultation, 1785 ], congratulations on the birth of recipient's child (1785) (continued)

the death of the writer's wife, a visit to Southwold, changes in the writer's household ( 1786); the writer's 'labours in the Athenian Theatre', Mrs. Punchard's transfer of the school to Sarah [ ], the completion of the writer's [ translation of] Sophocles [The Tragedies of Sophocles. Translated, 1788] which he had undertaken at the request of a countess who had advanced the money for publication [? Georgiana, Countess Dowager Spencer, to whom the work is dedicated], thoughts of a visit to the recipient at Soughton Grove with the proposed route, the knighting of Mr. Fenn for publishing two 'Vols. of old Letters' [Sir John Fenn, the first two volumes of whose work Original Letters written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III . . ., which included letters of the Paston family, were published in 1787] (1787); the loss of recipient's son, relations with parishioners at Badgworth and occasional thoughts of going to reside there, a visit by Mr. [ ] Rash and his daughter to Ireland and an inclination on their part to visit Wales, the progress through the press of the writer's [translation of] Sophocles, an offer to the writer by the Lord Chancellor [Edward Thurlow, 1st baron Thurlow of Ashfield, co. Suffolk, later 1st baron Thurlow of Thurlow, co. Suffolk] of a vacant prebend in Norwich [cathedral] and his installation into that dignity 'worth more than 300 £ a year', the writer's taking of his M.A., degree at Cambridge 'necessary on this occasion' [i.e., his installation as canon], and the offer of a doctorate which he had declined, the two months residence at Norwich [cathedral] in June and July, the appearance of Mrs. [Sarah] Siddons on the stage at Norwich for ten nights in September, a visit to the same city in the same month by the singer Madam [Gertrud Elisabeth] Mara [née Schmeling], oratorios and concerts at St. Peter's church and St. Andrew's hall, Norwich, on this occasion (1788); the death of Mrs. Daltera which gave Mrs. Griffith possession of the two estates at Badgworth, the conditions of the lease of the said estates showing the interest the writer's son had therein, the possibility that the late bishop [Jonathan Shipley of St. Asaph] would be succeeded by Dr. Watson known as 'B[isho]p Bluster' [? Dr. Richard Watson, bishop of Llandaff], Mr. Griffith's attitude towards the lease of the Badgworth estate, the loss of recipient's son, the writer's collation [by Lewis Bagot, bishop of Norwich] to the livings of Lowestoft and Kessingland 'the united Vicarages are at present worth 470 £ a year and increasing under an Act of Inclosure', comments on the town of Lowestoft and plans for buying a house and settling there in the following spring, the writer's joy in being rid of Badgworth which had been bestowed upon [the Reverend William] Wainhouse, a claim by [John Warren] bishop of Bangor that he had helped in obtaining the prebend [at Norwich] for the writer (1789); the move from Scarning and the furnishing of houses at Norwich and Lowestoft, the situation of the house at Lowestoft, letters from Mr. Wainhouse, the writer's successor at Badgworth [ see above], about dilapidations, the election of a successor to the writer at Scarning [? as schoolmaster], the new bishop [of St. Asaph, Lewis Bagot translated from Norwich in 1790] (1790); the death of the writer's son, a draft for twenty five guineas sent by Mr. Griffith to the writer's deceased son for his interest in the rectorial estates at Badgworth, a visit from [Charles Manners Sutton, bishop of Norwich], comments on improvements and bathing activity at Lowestoft, the appointment of a neighbour [the Reverend] Hugh Hill as rector of Southampton (1792); [George] Romney's portrait of the writer's son, rumours of the writer's marriage spread by, inter alios, Harry Hobart 'Member [of Parliament] for the City' [of Norwich], an invitation from the mayor [of Norwich] to the writer to preach the Fast Sermon and a request by the court of mayoralty that the sermon be published [A Sermon preached before the . . . Mayor of Norwich and the Corporation . . . the day appointed . . . as a General Fast, Norwich, 1793], ships and visitors at Lowestoft, the visitors including earls, barons, and [Charles Manners Sutton], bishop of Norwich, and Mrs. Sutton, a sermon preached at Lowestoft by the bishop, the enlargement of the churchyard at Lowestoft and the consecration of the additional area (1793); a visit to Norwich by [Lewis Bagot], bishop of St. Asaph, and Mrs. Bagot, a meeting of the county called at Norwich by [George Townshend, 1st] marquess Townshend [of Raynham, co. Norfolk], the gathering by the democrats of 'a numerous Mob together of the lowest of the people', the deaths of Samuel Rash and Sir John Fenn, changes in the appearance of Lowestoft, structural alterations adjacent to and affecting the writer's house (1794); the election of members of parliament for the city [of Norwich], the violent contest against Mr. [William] Wyndham [one of the two members returned] and the defeat of the 'Democratic Quakers', the election of members [of parliament] for the county [of Norfolk] and the return of the former members Sir John Wodehouse [see above] and [Thomas William] Coke 'without opposition for want of time only', flooding in the Norfolk area, Miss Kitty Potter's marriage [? the writer's daughter], Mr. [John] Lloyd's candidature for the parliamentary representation of recipient's county [of Flint], the death of the two members of parliament for Yarmouth since the general election [of May 1796] and the election of two new members on 26 October, the efforts of the Presbyterian Democrats to secure one of the seats (1796); the writer's belief that there would be no invasion at Lowestoft, the protecting of the coast by Admiral [Adam] Duncan [later 1st baron Duncan of Lundie, co. Perth, and viscount Duncan of Camperdown], with fourteen ships of the line and six frigates (April 1797); chapter meetings at [Norwich] (1800); throughout the letters there is copious news of the state of the writer's health, news of the health and activities of various members of the writer's family, news of mutual friends and acquaintances, and enquiries after and comments on news concerning recipient's family).

Twenty-seven holograph letters, 1739-1756 and undated, from R[ichard] Hurd [later bishop successively of Lichfield and Coventry, 1775-1781, and of Worcester, 1781-1808] from [Emmanuel College] Camb[ridge], Hatton Grange [Shropshire], and Reymerston [co. Norfolk], to the Reverend [? John] Potter at Doddington near Marshfield in Gloucestershire (1), and Batcombe near Brewton (23), Shepton Mallet (1), and Axbridge near Wells (1) in Somersetshire. Some of these letters are fairly lengthy without containing much factual information, being written in a philosophic and discursive vein, with a fondness for quotations from or allusions to classical authors. The two men appear to have been fond of writing poetry, and in the present letters Hurd comments on poems received from Potter and sends him examples of his own work including poems entitled 'Zelinda' (a maiden gazing at her reflection in a stream laments the transient nature of personal beauty), ' A View of the beauties of the country particularly those of Hatton Grange in Shropshire', 'A Soliloquy' (composed when travelling through Northamptonshire and reflecting upon the contrast between the miserable condition of shepherds the writer had seen and their idyllic existence in poetry), 'Verses wrote in a Pope's Essay on Man' (? composed by Hurd or discovered by him), and 'Ode on the Peace' (in 1748), a poem written whilst ruminating on Norton gardens, and a poem reflecting on aspects of rural life. Topics referred to more specifically in these letters include the writer's change of residence to Hatton Grange in Shropshire, the delightful nature of that neighbourhood, the writer's delight in reading Virgil, the loan of a speech to deliver at Emman[uel College, Cambridge] on 5 November, the style of recipient's letters, the mental image conjured up in the writer's mind by a description sent to him by Potter of his home and its neighbourhood (1739); the lack of letters from [William] Gould, an old friend, with comments on waning friendships, the connection between physical deformities or ugliness and an evil disposition, verses on Dr . [ ] Bowden written by recipient's brother (1740); the writer's attendance at a concert held at the Tons [in Cambridge] and a meeting with Will[iam] Gould, the appearance of Mr. [Christopher] Pitt's translation of Virgil's Aeneid in 4to volumes and the expectation of a 12° edition, Mr. Pitt's translation of 'Vida's Art of Poetry' [the De Arte Poetica of Marcus Hieronymus Vida, first published in Paris in 1534 and translated by Pitt in 1725], the content and style of Dr. [Conyers] Middleton's [life of] Cicero [The History of the Life of M. Tullius Cicero, London, 1741], a comparison of recipient's verses with those of [Matthew] Prior and comments on Prior's work, a letter received by recipient's brother in answer to a poem he had sent Mr. Pitt to compliment him upon his translation, 'Dr. [Patrick] Delany's life of David' [An Historical Account of the Life and Reign of David, King of Israel, published 1740-1742], affairs at Cambridge, a visit by Bob Hudson who had come to Cambridge to be ordained priest, a concert at Trinity College Hall [Cambridge] for the benefit of Signor Caporalli 'the famous Bass Violist' [? Andrea Caporale] with Signor Pasqualli [? Niccolo Pasquali] playing the first fiddle, the writer's interest 'in drawing up a treatise on Pastoral Poetry' (1741); an offer to the writer of a living in Norfolk worth about £70 or £80 a year and an arrangement with Bob Hudson that Hudson would hold the living for him until he was qualified to hold it himself, a visit to the patron [of the living] who had an excellent collection of manuscripts, medals and paintings, the appearance of 'the new Dunciad. It is believ'd to be, and certainly is, Mr. Pope's' [Alexander Pope: The New Dunciad . . ., consisting of a fourth book of the Dunciad, 1742], the writer's ordination in St. Paul's [London] by [Joseph Butler], bishop of Bristol, on letters dimissory from [Thomas Gooch, bishop of] Norwich, visits to 'the curiosities of the Town' including Vaux Hall and Ranelagh, an offer of a fellowship [at Emmanuel College, Cambridge] vacated by [Nathaniel] Smalley, further praise for the writer's patron 'the most general Scholar I have convers'd with' who had provided him with a curacy as well as the living [? of Reymerston], a fortnight spent with Dr. [Cox] Macro who had shown the writer his manuscripts including a 'paraphrase of his upon the Revelations connected all along with & expland from History', a loan of sermons which the writer promised not to preach anywhere except in his own two parishes of Reymerston and Gaverston, hopes of obtaining the opinion of Dr. Macro and the recipient on the Life . . . of David [see above], the writer's intention of 'looking a little into Italian' with Dr. [Macro] as his instructor, queries with regard to passages from Lucretius (1742); the writer's election as a fellow [of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1742], the election of Dr. [William] George as provost of King's [College, Cambridge] and the disputing of the validity of the election by [Richard Reynolds], bishop of Lincoln, who was visitor of the college, the controversy between [Conyers] Middleton and the 'new made' public orator at Cambridge [James Tunstall who had been elected in October 1741] concerning the former's book on the life of Cicero [see above], recipient's remarks on 'Dr. Young's Night Thoughts' [Edward Young: The Complaint or Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, 1742-], 'Whitehead's paltry Epistle from Ann Boleyn' [William Whitehead: Ann Boleyn to Henry the Eighth, An Heroic Epistle (versified), 1743], a French novel called Marianne [? Claude Francois Lambert: La Nouvelle Marianne, or Pierre Marivaux: La Vie de Marianne], the first epistle in the writer's proposed work on pastoral poetry to be entitled 'Thoughts on Pastoral Poetry in ten Letters on the Eclogues of Virgil', Mr. [Christopher] Hand's new living at Aller in Somersetshire worth 'near 300 pounds' a year, the recipient's new curacy [? at Shepton Mallet], [William] Gould's ordination as priest and institution to the vicarage of Hoxen in Suffolk (1743); a legacy bequeathed to recipient by his aunt, the election of [Thomas Pelham-Holles formerly Pelham, 4th] d[uke] of Newcastle [upon Tyne, later 1st duke of Newcastle under Line and baron Pelham of Stanmer, co. Sussex] to succeed [Charles Seymour, 10th] d[uke] of Somerset, as chancellor [of the University of Cambridge], the death of the professor of divinity [at Cambridge] who was also master of P[eter] House [John Whalley, regius professor of divinity, 1742-1748, and master of Peterhouse, 1733-1748], the appointment of Dr. [Edmund] Keene [later bishop successively of Chester, 1752-1771, and of Ely, 1771-1781] to the vacant mastership, the expectation that the professorship of divinity would be given to Mr. Green of St. John's [College, Cambridge] [John Green, who was appointed and later became bishop of Lincoln, 1761] (1748); and the writer's presentation to the [Emmanuel] College living of Thurcaston near Leicester, a rectory worth 'between two and three hundred pounds a year' (1756). The letters also contain frequent references to the recipient's love affair and to his brother, who appears to have been a student at Cambridge and then ? curate of Reymerston.

Diary, 1 May 1851-18 September 1852, of Lieutenant Herbert M[illingchamp] Vaughan, 90th Light Infantry, mostly while stationed at Ballincollig and Cork, Ireland. The diary contains an account of his various duties, his social and recreational activities, including balls, regattas, parties and picnics, and hunting and shooting.
Vaughan's company was at Ballincollig until late 1851, when it removed to nearby Cork; the regiment was sent to Dublin in August 1852 (f. 112 verso). Additionally Vaughan spent most of September 1851 on leave in London (ff. 38-46 verso) and was at home at Plas Llangoedmor, Cardiganshire, [9] October-[29] December 1851 (ff. 49-65 verso). Among the incidents recounted are the death by suicide of one of his men during an assignment to transport ammunition (ff. 8-11); [George W. Stone] performing Electro-Biology [i.e. hypnotism] experiments on some of his men (ff. 26 verso, 29 verso-30); several visits to the Great Exhibition in London (ff. 39 verso-43 verso passim); attending the Cork garrison races, [21] April 1852 (ff. 86-87 verso); and a riot by paupers at Cork workhouse, [9] May 1852 (f. 90 recto-verso). Vaughan assisted in keeping order during the Cork County by-election in March 1852 (ff. 82-83) and in Cork City at the General Election in July 1852 (ff. 102 verso-103 verso). His main preoccupation in open season was fox hunting and shooting game (ff. 49 verso-84 verso passim). A memo found loose within the volume, dated 31 July 1852 with additions to 1855, has been tipped in inside the back cover (f. 122, see also f. 109).

Notebook of Berta Ruck, March 1920-January 1921, recording visits to Oxford and London and holidays in Brittany and Scotland; a few extracts were later incorporated in her autobiographical volume A Story-teller tells the Truth (London, 1935).

Notebooks of Frances (Fanny) Williams Wynn, daughter of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 4th baronet, of Wynnstay, Denbighshire, by his wife Charlotte (née Grenville). They include notes written during visits to London and to country houses and on visits to the continent of Europe, copies of letters, records of conversations and observations on political and historical events.

Papers of Rose Mabel Lewis, 1873-1917, comprising journals, 1874-1912, including a journal containing an account of her honeymoon journey to the USA and Canada, together with a short story, 'The Shepherd Lord', notes on painting, knitting patterns and cookery recipes and other journals containing details of journeys to Jamaica, London and France, Las Palmas and Brittany; literary manuscripts, including notebooks with poetry and prose drafts, 1873-[c. 1914]; and printed material, 1891, 1917.

A log-book of the ship British Monarch, kept by the commander, Thomas Bowen Rees, containing an account of her voyage from Liverpool to Calcutta, June-October 1865 (ff. 1 verso-23 verso), and from Calcutta to London, December 1865 - April 1866 (inverted text ff. 27-54 verso). Also included is a draft letter, ca. 1866, from Thomas Bowen Rees to 'Mrs Rowlands', ?'Yet y Cwrt', near Newport, co. Pembroke (inverted text f. 26 recto-verso); and notes in Welsh in praise of the Sunday School (inverted text ff. 24-5 verso).

A journal describing a tour in North Wales, preceded by a visit to London and Oxford, 18 August - 30 September 1860, by an unidentified lady, a resident of Boughspring, Tidenham, co. Gloucester; the journal is illustrated with engravings and pressed plants.

An account by David Pennant of tours to the Lake District, 1789, and from London to Chester, 1792, with a list of pictures at Burleigh, a seat of the Marquis of Exeter.