Executors' papers,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 23473E.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004653870
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1781-1810.
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • ii, 19 ff. ; 335 x 220 mm. Loose in rebacked Middle Hill boards.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Letters and papers, 1781-1810, of Morgan Thomas, Norfolk Street, the Strand, London, and William Makepeace Thackeray, grandfather of the novelist W. M. Thackeray, executors appointed under the will of Hopkin Walters, surgeon with the East India Company in Bengal, who died at sea in 1781. The documents include references to the seizure of the testator's original will by the authorities in Cadiz and an attempt to recover his effects and part of his fortune in gold and silver from the ship Diana.

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Acquisition Information

Kraus, H. P.; New York; Purchase; 1995

Note

Title based on contents.

Also known as Phillipps MS 34773.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23473E.

Other Finding Aids

The contents of NLW MSS 22853-23691 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003).

Archivist's Note

May 2009.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003);

Custodial History

Transferred from NLW Department of Printed Books to NLW Department of Manuscripts and Records in 1995.

Additional Information

Published

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