Letters to Sir John Thomas Stanley, bart,

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Scope and Content

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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Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 12886D.

Other Finding Aids

The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).

Archivist's Note

April 2010.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS

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