Viscount Palmerston letters from Wales

Four autograph letters, July-October 1804, from Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, to his mother, Mary, written mainly on a tour of Wales, in the company of his friend Laurence Sulivan, describing their journey and places visited.
The letters were sent from Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, 18 July (f. 11), Bala, Merionethshire, 28 [recte 27] July (f. 12), and Shrewsbury, 1 August (f.13); with a final letter from St John's College, Cambridge, 26 October 1804 (f. 14). There are references to Sir Francis Burdett, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and William Wilberforce (f. 12 verso), and an eyewitness account of the Ladies of Llangollen (f. 13 verso); the partly constructed Pontcysyllte aqueduct is also described (f. 13 verso).

Arranged chronologically at NLW.

Michael Silverman; London; Purchase; July 2007; 004489281.

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23980F, ff. 11-14.

Letters torn on being opened by recipient, and repaired at NLW.

'3M934/RIE (4)' (in pencil on f. 11)

Further letters of Palmerston to his mother are in the 'Broadlands Archives', now University of Southampton, Libraries Special Collections MS 62.

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