WOMENS LANGUAGE AND EXPERIENCE, 1500-1940

Womens Diaries and Related Sources

Part 4: Sources from the National Library of Scotland and the National Library of Wales

Detailed Listing

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Sources from the National Library of Scotland

Adv Ms 32.4.4

COVENANTERS Early 18th c. copies of letters and memoirs of Covenanters.

(i) Letters, 1675-7, of the Preacher John Welwood. They are mostly addressed to Elizabeth Collace and her sister Katherine Ross, but there are also a few to the Covenanter Richard Cameron. The letters, which are not in strict chronological order, are chiefly religious in nature, but there are occasional mentions of the persecutions in Fife, the Morse and Teviotdale.
(f 1).

(ii) Memoirs of Katherine Ross (published Edinburgh, 1735). The MS does not differ greatly from the printed text except in the inclusion of a note identifying one of the characters as the Minster of Auldearn (f 35v). It includes another note which appears in the printed text, where the author had left a blank in her original MS (f 66). See also Adv MS 34.5.19, ff 185-284 which is closely related (f 27).

(iii) Notes by Jean Collace on the deaths of her sisters Katherine and Elizabeth in 1697 and 1704. Those concerning Katherine form the basis of the first part of the epilogue in her printed Memoirs (f 79).

(iv) ‘Some short remembrances of the Lord’s kindness to me, and his work on my soul for my own use ’ being a religious memoir by Jean Collace. Most of it refers to the period 1675-6, and it occasionally mentions the family’s moments in Fife and Morayshire, the conventicles and persecutions, and the texts of the field-preachers sermons (f 79v).

Sections ii-iv are in the same hand. iii + 126 ff Quarto.

Adv Ms 34.5.19

COVENANTERS Early 18th c. copies of autobiographies and other works of Covenanters.

Autobiography of John Livingstone, minister of Ancrum. It has been published from the version in Wodrow MS Quarto XVIII by William & Tweedie in Select Biographies (Wodrow Society, Edn, 1845-7) i, pp 129-97. This MS has few variants from the printer version, (f 1).

(ii) “An account of what past when Mr John Livingstone appeared before the Councill house at Edinburgh” 11 Dec 1662. cf Select Biographies, i, pp 215-21 (f 51).

(iii) “Some expressions of Mr John Livingstone... a little before his death ye 9 August 1672” cf Select Biographies, i, pp 290-1, and Wodrow MS Quarto XVIII, f85 (f 55v).

(iv) Sermon of Livingstone at Ancrum, 13 Oct 1662, cf Select Biographies, i, pp 201-12 and Wodrow Ms Quarto. XXVII, no 17 (f 56v)

(v) Letter of Livingstone to his parish, 3 Apr 1663. cf Select Biographies i. pp 225-9 (f 64).

(vi) Sayings of Livingstone cf Select Biographies, i, pp 279-86 (f 67).

(vii) Extracts from Robert McWard’s ETTXRWVIAMOI; or, Earnest Contendings for the Faith. The pagination noted in the margins does not agree with that of the 1723 edition (f 73).

(viii) Not used.

(ix) Memoirs of James Fraser of Brea, Minister of Culross. Although related to Fraser’s published memoirs (Select Biographies ii, pp 85-370), it is not the same. It chiefly concerns Fraser’s spiritual life, but also mentions his various trials and his imprisonment on the Bass Rock. These appear to have been several lacunae in the original manuscript from which this was copied (f 119).

(x) Notes of sermons and pious reflections of Sir Archibald Johnstone, Lord Warriston, Jan-Mar 1650. They do not appear in David May Fleming’s edition of Warriston’s diary (Scottish History Society, 2nd series, 18; Edinburgh, 1919) (f 169).

(xi) Memoirs of Katharine Ross (published Edinburgh, 1735). For another closely related manuscript of this and sections xii-xiii, see Adv Ms 32.4.4, ff 27-126. This copy includes the note (f 194) identifying the minister of Auldearn (f 185).

(xii) Notes by Jean Collace on the deaths of her sisters Katharine and Elizabeth in 1697 and 1704. See Adv Ms 32.4.4 f 79 (f 238).

(xiii) “Some short remembrances of the Lord’s kindness to me and his work on my soul for my own use”, by Jean Collace. See Adv Ms 32.4.4.,

f 79v (f 238v).
ii + 284 ff Octavo.

Adv Ms 34.6.22

VEITCH. An 18th c. copy of An Account of the Lord’s gracious dealing with me; and his remarkable hearing and answering my supplications, being the religious memoirs of Mrs Marion Veitch, the wife of William Veitch, Minister of Dumfries, published by the Free Church of Scotland, Edinburgh 1846. For information about the original, and extracts from this copy, see Thomas McCrie (ed) Memoirs of Mr William Veitch and George Brysoon… This MS is written in two different hands, the second of which is early 19th c. and corresponds closely with the printed version.
81 pp Quarto.

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MSS 980-6 LADY NAIRNE COUSOMON

Correspondence, journals and songs, mainly in the autographs of Lady Nairne and of her sisters, Mrs Stewart of Bonskeid, Mrs Stewart of Dalguise, and Mrs Keith of Ravelstone. Those of which were received loose have been bound in their chronological order, except the songs and miscellaneous fragments. Some of the journals had already been sewn together in a manner which made it impossible to arrange them in exact chronological order. Lists of contents have been inserted in the volumes of journals and songs, and writers of all letters have been entered in the General Index of MSS. Quarto.
MS 980 Correspondence, 1763-1873, of Lady Nairne, of her literary correspondent Helen Walker and of the Stewart of Bonskeid and Sandeman families. 233 ff.

MS 981A (ff1-185) Journals of Lady Nairne, 1789-1845 v + 697 ff. Divided into 3 vols, A, B & C.

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MSS 980-6 LADY NAIRNE COUSOMON

MS 981B (ff186-468) and MS 981C (f f469-683) Journals of Lady Nairne, 1789-1845 v + 697 ff Divided into 3 vols, A, B & C.

MS 982 Journal of Mrs Stewart of Bonskeid, 1802 i + 40 ff.

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MSS 980-6 LADY NAIRNE COUSOMON

MS 983 Journals of Mrs Stewart of Dalguise, 1789-1808 i+ 185 ff.

MS 984 Journals of Mrs Keith of Ravelstone, 1831-47 i + 479 ff.

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MSS 980-6 LADY NAIRNE COUSOMON

MS 985 Songs, mainly in the autograph of Lady Nairne vi + 42 ff.

MS 986 Miscellaneous fragments in the autograph of Lady Nairne and others, including ‘Thoughts’, 1821 of Lady Nairne, and ‘Recollections of Clevedon’, etc, 1847 by Margaret Harriet Steuart; correspondence regarding the collection and inventories 211 ff.

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MSS 1096-1100

MARJORY FLEMING. Portrait, diaries, correspondence and poems of and regarding ‘Pet Marjory’, 1811-12, n. d. These are reproduced in Journals, Letters and Verse of Marjory Fleming, in colotype facsimile, ed A Esdaile, London, 1934.

MS 1096 Miniature portrait 1880.

MS 1097-9 Diaries of Marjory Fleming. n. d. 28 ff, 19 ff, 30 ff Quarto.

MS 1100 Letters and papers of Marjory Fleming; letters of her mother, and her cousin Isabella Keith, 1811-12, n. d. Arranged chronologically. 20 ff.

MS 1909

Confessions of Witches. Confessions of Margaret Duchall & others, accused of witchcraft, and their dolations against other persons, with the signatures of those who heard them, Alloa, 1658 3ff.

MS 2205

(i) Memorandum-book of Elizabeth Walker, daughter of James Walker, Minister of Buittle, containing notes of money matters and deaths in the family, recipes etc, 1717-62, n. d. The earlier notes are in the hand of another. Fragmentary; many leaves had been wholly or partially cut away before receipt, and several blank leaves have been removed since (f 1).

(ii) Journal of Mr Bontei, Writer in Cardross, 1728, relating entirely to business and occasionally giving prices (f 24). Under 3 June is a reference to ‘Rob: Roy’ (f 43v) Proc. vol lv, p26. 72 ff. Small octavo.

MS 3628

Journal by Mrs Graham, commencing on 23 Aug 1781, of a journey from near Oporto through Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Madrid, Burgos, Bayonne, Toulouse, and Avignon to Lyons. At the end of MS 3629 are notes of purchases, anecdotes in French, etc. 37 + many blank ff; 51 ff. 145 x 100 mm.

MSS 3630-31 Diaries of Mrs Graham, 1785-6.

MS 3630 1785 iv + 44 ff 120 x 75 mm.

MS 3631 1786 13 ff 90 x 75 mm.

MS 3632 Notes by Mrs Graham relating to her care for the poor about Brooksby, 1788-90. 20 + several blank ff. 155 x 100 mm.

MS 3633 Mrs Graham’s journal of a journey from Aix-en-Provence via Fréjus to Antibes, Dec 1791. 7 + a few blank ff. 160 x 95 mm.

MS 3634 Notes by Mrs Graham on cards.

(i) Notes of a tour, starting from Balgowen in Aug 1780, mentioning capture by an American privateer and covering the journey described in MSS 3628-9 and return to Great Britain (f 1).

(ii) Notes on her movements in Great Britain, 1790 (f 2).

(iii) Notes on plants, 1791 (f 3).

(iv) Notes on poultry, 1791 (f 6).

(v) Notes from books (f 8).

(vi) Sketch (f25). 25 ff. 120 x 80 mm.

MS 3635 Notes of Mrs Graham, chiefly relating to the care of the poor.
‘No I Old cloaths given out’ and notes on the poor about Balgowen, 1783-91 (f 1).
‘No 2 Books recommended to me’, perhaps intended for Sunday Schools, etc (f 17).
‘No 3 receipts’ chiefly medical, ?1786 (f 25).
‘No 4’ Notes on the poor, 1787 (f 33) 40 ff. 120 x 50 mm.

MS 3636 Notes by Mrs Graham from a sermon of Bowdaloue ? 1791.
9 + many blank ff. 155 x 90 mm.

MS 3637 Prayers, notes from books, etc, in Mrs Graham’s hand. 18 ff.

MS 16045

‘Extracts from Mrs Fielding’s Journal while we were Abroad together in 1781’, made by the Hon. Mrs Mary Graham and describing a tour in Portugal made by the Grahams and the Fieldings. Mary Graham’s own journal of the tour is MS 3628 88 pp. Octavo.

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MS 3758

Eliza Fletcher. The manuscript of part of the Autobiography of Mrs Eliza Fletcher (1770-1858), in the hand of the author (except ff 30v-36r). The period covered is from 1770 to 1817. There are many variations from the printed edition of 1875. 92 ff. Sm quarto.

MSS 6489-6502

Anne Lady Halkett’s Meditations.

Anne Lady Halkett was a daughter of a cadet of the Murray of Tullibardine family and lived from 1622-1699. She was the second wife of Sir James Halkett of Pitfirrane who died in 1670. Lady Halkett was a royalist and author of religious meditations. There are now extant fourteen bound volumes of the ‘Meditations’, out of a series of twenty-one, viz. numbers
v-vii, ix-x, xii-xiii, xv-xxi according to the numbering in an appendix to The Life of the Lady Halkett, Edinburgh, 1901. The dedication of this work is signed ‘S.C.’, and it is probably by Simon Couper, a Dunfermline minister who knew Lady Halkett well (see MS 6502, pp 226-9).

Apart from religious reflections the volumes were used as a diary and contain thoughts of the writer on historical events, eg the Popish Plot of 1678, as well as comments on her financial troubles consequent on the Civil War and later widowhood. The volumes present here were written from the middle of the seventeenth century until the death of the writer. The other seven volumes were already missing in 1870 when John Gough Nichols was editing the text of The Autobiography of Anne Lady Halkett, Camden Society, 1875. Loose papers relative to each volume have been bound in at the beginning or end and paginated in Roman numerals.

MS 6489 ii + 259 pp Folio

MS 6490 ii + 380 pp Octavo

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Anne Lady Halkett’s Meditations.

MS 6491 v + 326 pp Quarto

MS 6492 xxii + 352 pp Quarto

MS 6493 ix + 336 pp Quarto

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Anne Lady Halkett’s Meditations.

MS 6494 iii + 380 pp Quarto

MS 6495 v + 506 pp Quarto

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Anne Lady Halkett’s Meditations.

MS 6496 iii + 378 pp Quarto

MS 6497 vii + 392 pp Quarto

MS 6498 v + 372 pp Quarto

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Anne Lady Halkett’s Meditations.

MS 6499 iv + 370 pp Quarto

MS 6500 iii + 375 pp Quarto

MS 6501 vii + 373 pp Quarto

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Anne Lady Halkett’s Meditations.

MS 6502 iii + 314 pp Quarto

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MSS 6659 ESSAY ON FEMALE CONDUCT

A copy of an essay incorporating the corrections by Margaret Monro on the way in which a girl should conduct her life, composed by and apparently in the hand of Alexander Monro, primus, probably in 1738 or 1739, in the form of letters to his daughter Margaret. The sheets on which the ‘letters’ were written were inserted in a blank notebook as interleaves. Additional paragraphs, sentences etc, were written in the margins of the interleaves, as well as on some of the original pages, on which is written by the same hand an essay entitled, ‘Of the Origine of Government and of the Right to The Supream Power applyed to the disputed Succession of the Crown of Britain’ 1739. v + 386 + some blank ff.

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MSS 8224-8  D iaries and Notebooks of Anne, Lady Stuart, wife of Sir John Stuart, 5th Bt. of Castlemilk.

Diaries for the years 1776 to 1780 describing her social and private life. The diary for 1779 (MS 8227) is complete only to 15 Aug, the remainder having been destroyed by Anne Charlotte Maitland Stirling in 1830 (see MS 8228, f 7). The diary for 1780 (MS 8228) ends at 29 Jan; it is followed by a diary written by Anne C M Stirling (f 7), beginning on 21 July, 1850. 37 ff; 61 ff; 64 ff; 36 ff; 33 ff. Octavo.

MS 8229 Diary of Anne, Lady Stuart for 1793. 50 ff Octavo.

MS 8231 Commonplace book, 1758, to Miss [Anne] Stuart, Castlemilk, a love token from K M 24 ff Octavo.

MS 9379 A-B
TIBBIE FLINT ‘Tibbie Flint’s History’, sketches in letter and anecdote form, written in Scots by Elizabeth Bell of Coldstream (1787-1876) in the character of Tibbie Flint. The material contained in the two volumes was apparently written between 1808 and 1828, and describes amusing events in the life of ‘Tibbie Flint’ in Roxburghshire, Edinburgh and London. Authorship and other details are given in a note at the beginning of the manuscript, dated 24 Dec 1890, in the hand of William, 3rd Earl of Minto which reveals that Elizabeth Bell used to dress up and act the part of Tibbie Flint at Minto House. Her connection with the family was through friendship with Mary, Countess of Minto, to whom many of the sketches are addressed. Elizabeth Bell’s ‘gift of personification’ was also praised by Sir Walter Scott in his Journal, 7 March 1828.
ii ff + 316 pp. Quarto.
ii ff + 283 pp. Quarto.

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MS 9481 JOURNAL OF MISS EWBANK OF YORK, 1803-5

The journal covers the period 9 Sept 1803 to 11 Sept 1805. The narrative opens with an account of a tour of the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales, but most of the text is concerned with social life in York. The writer was the niece of the Revd Andrew Ewbank, rector of Londesborough, Yorkshire, and many entries relate to his family. Amongst prominent personalities are Miss Elizabeth Hamilton, the novelist, and Dr Henry Moyes, a blind Scottish lecturer on popular science. A few pages have been torn out. 80 ff. Quarto.

MS 9482 Journal and reminiscences of Miss M E McCulloch (later Ross)
1810-1831. The book opens with brief notes of a tour to Wales and Bath; this is followed (f 4) by detailed reminiscences, written in 1813, of a prolonged visit to Bath in 1809-10. The second part of the volume (f 31) contains a long history, written during mourning and addressed to her children, of events in her family, from her marriage in 1813 to Captain Ross, retired from naval service in the East, until his death in 1828. Among family homes mentioned are Troqueer Holmand Cargenholm, Kirkcudbrightshire; a long stay in Richmond, Yorkshire, is also described. The volume concludes with three sets of memorial reflections, 1829-31.
133 ff. Quarto.

MS 10255

Diary of Eliza Cur of Dundee, July 1863-June 1864 describing journey to and year spent at school for young ladies in Fountainebleau.
i + 51 + several blank ff.

MSS 13141-44 Diaries of Lady Hislop (daughter of Hugh Elliot, diplomatist).
13141 1825-42 84 ff Octavo
1843-46. 17 + blank ff Octavo
1847 26 + printed ff Octavo
13144 1852 54 + printed ff Octavo

MSS 13145-53

Notebooks, Commonplace Books and Account books of Lady Hislop, 1826-82.

MS 13145

Pocketbook of Lady Hislop containing notes of correspondence, 1846-7. 4 + blank ff. Duodecimo.

MS 13146

Commonplace book of Lady Hislop with Messrs Coutts & Co, 1826-27.
8 + blank + 1f. Duodecimo

MS 13147

Personal account books of Lady Hislop with Messrs Coutts & Co, 1836-48. 10 + blank ff. Quarto

MS 13148-153

Account books of Lady Hislop’s trustees and executors with Messrs Coutts & Co, 1843-82

MS 13148 1843-50 20 ff

MS 13149 1850-5 20 ff
MS 13150 1855-60 20 ff

MS 13151 1860-4 18ff

MS 13152 1865-77 16 ff
MS 13153 1877-82 11 + blank ff

MS 15904

Diary 1891 of Elizabeth Lucy Ramsay daughter of John Ramsay of Kidalton, written when she was 14. It covers Jan-Sept 1891 and describes her activities such as riding, sailing off the west coast in the family’s yacht, and visit to Islay and London. 19 ff Octavo.

MS 15905

Journal of a tour in England and Scotland, Aug-Oct, 1790. The writer is apparently a young lady travelling with her brother and friends from Hampshire. She gives brief descriptions of places visited, including Nottingham, the Lake District and Edinburgh; from here they toured the Highlands via Stirling, Inverary and Lock Lomond before returning south through York and Peterborough. 39 ff Octavo.

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MS 19224

‘Punch’s Pocket Book’ for 1853 containing the diary of Isabella Bremner kept on her journey to India and in Bombay, where she went to accompany her husband who had established a medical practice there in 1841. This is mainly an account of the social life and daily routine of the Bremner household. 104 ff Octavo.

MS 19997

Engagement diary of Anna Geddes, 1900, including details of Patrick and Anna Geddes’s visit to America of that year with a note of their expenses
(f 27) 32 ff Octavo.

MSS 20240-44.

E S Haldane. Diary of Elizabeth S Haldane, 1887-1937. MSS 20240-2 are three quarto volumes containing the greater part of her original diary from 1910 to shortly before her death in 1937. MSS 20243-4 are a photocopy of transcripts of the complete diary from 1888 to the end, typed on sheets of quarto paper. The whereabouts of the first volume of the original diary are not known. The diary was written at intervals of varying length, ranging from a few days to some months, but most entries cover the period following the previous one. A postcard of 1935 of Sir George Adam Smith, formerly loosely enclosed in MS 20242 is tipped in (f 40).

MS 20240 1910-17 90 ff

MS 20241 1917-30 86 ff

MS 20242 1931-7 141 ff (ff 42-140 blank)

MS 20243 1887-1918 213 ff

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MSS 20244 1919-1937 198 ff

Acc. 9756

Medical journal of Lady Clementina Malcolm. Loose journal notes in varying formats. 3 May-10 Sept 1831. 10 ff

Miscellaneous papers 1701-1845, n. d. c 40 ff Includes several letters relating to her illness: three from her to her children, written before an operation in case of its failure; one to her recommending “the efficacy of a small opium pill”.

Letters to Lady Malcolm from her children George, William and Malcolm. 1822-8, n. d. 85 ff.

Alexander Macdonald of Keppoch. Frr of letter re Glencoe massacre. 1f
Detailed journal describing attempts to cure her breast cancer by medicine, plaster, bathing etc. Lady Malcolm died 19 Nov 1831 after two years of suffering.

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Sources from the National Library of Wales

Peniarth 521A (Hengwrt 538) DIARIES & NOTEBOOKS

Eighteen diaries and notebooks containing memoranda and accounts by
Howell Vaughan, 1633, Katherine, widow of Griffith Wynn of Bodfean, and later wife of Col. Hugh Nanney, 1692, Hugh Evans, agent to the said Katherine, 1682-90, Lumley Williams of Ystumcolwyn, 1696, Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, 1745, and others. Several of the diaries, which include almanacks by Trigge, Gallen, and Rider and the Daily Journal, contain entries relating to the Nannau estate. Rider’s British Merlin for 1698 contains a few englynion in manuscript, and in one notebook there are inventories of linen and utensils at Nannau, 1692.
English; Welsh. XVII-XVIII cent.

NLW MS 4340A A COMMONPLACE BOOK

A volume of transcripts of prayers, devotions, epitaphs, verses, etc., from printed and family sources by Mrs Katherine Thomas [? of Herefordshire], together with verses by her on the deaths of her children, Katherine (1665) and Dorothy (1676), and of her husband (1671), and on other occasions, and a copy of verses by Elizabeth Peirce, daughter of Dr Peirce [? William Piers, bishop] of Bath. English. XVII cent.

NLW MS 5940A MISS SPARROW’S SAYINGS.
‘Brief Remarks on Miss Sparrow’s Sayings which she hatched at Haverfordwest in the year 1751’, followed by an account by ‘S. D.’ of the treatment accorded to him by ‘J. B.’, ‘collector of the Duty on Salt’, during his stay at J. B.’s house at Haverfordwest, 1750-l, and an account of ‘The
Ingratitude of Mr J. B. to S. D.’, with copies of letters from S. D. to J. B., 1753. English. XVIII cent.

NLW MS 12471B (Wigfair 71) HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS.

A household account book recording, month by month, sums expended on food, clothing, household utensils, servants and casual labourers’ wages, local travelling, etc., during the years 1763-75, 1777-9, 1780 (incomplete), 1781, 1782 (incomplete), 1783 (incomplete), 1784 (incomplete), and 1785. The frequent references to turnpike tolls paid in visiting Ruthin may indicate a residence in that area. Also mentioned in connection with turnpike payments or otherwise are Bodfari, Denbigh, Derwen, Hafodunos, Llanruth, Llanrwst, Northop, Plasnewydd, Plasriffith, Rudland, Soughton, etc. The hand bears a close resemblance to that of the writer of the first two letters in NLW MS 12413, i.e. M. [possibly Mary] Lloyd, aunt of Phoebe Lloyd and consequently of John Lloyd (‘The Philosopher’) of Hafodunos. At the end of the volume a loose leaf written in a different hand and recording ‘Money layed out at Plascoch’ in September 1786 has been inserted. English. XVIII cent.

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Peniarth 416A Part I (Hengwrt 395)

A DIARY

The journal of Mrs Elizabeth Baker, Dolgelley, 1778-86.
Vols 1-4 English. XVIII cent.

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Peniarth 416A Part I (Hengwrt 395)

A DIARY

The journal of Mrs Elizabeth Baker, Dolgelley, 1778-86.
Vols 5-7 English. XVIII cent.

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Peniarth 416A Part I (Hengwrt 395)

A DIARY

The journal of Mrs Elizabeth Baker, Dolgelley, 1778-86.
Vols 8-10 English. XVIII cent.

Peniarth 416D Part II (Hengwrt 398)

A LETTER BOOK

The letter book of Mrs Elizabeth Baker, relating to mining ventures in Merioneth, 1770-5. With printed appeals for contributions towards her relief, 1787-8, and lists of donors.

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Peniarth 501C (Hengwrt 398, Part II)

MRS BAKER’S LETTER BOOKS.

Transcripts of letters written by Mrs Elizabeth Baker, 1779-97; extracts from newspapers relating to political events, 1795-7; and lists of presents received by Mrs Baker, 1798-9. English. XVIII cent.

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ELLISS MS NLW MSS 11737-59 are manuscripts of the family of Elliss of Llanafan, Rhandir-mwyn, Aberystwyth, etc. They were presented by Mr W J Griffiths, Aberystwyth, in 1938.

NLW MS 11737E (Elliss 1) ELLISS FAMILY MEMORANDA
Entries of births, etc., 1786-1863, of members of the family of Ellis at Lamberhurst, Brenchley, and Rolvenden, co. Kent, and at Llanfihangel y Croyddyn, Llanafan, and Llanilar, Co. Cardigan, recorded on the dorse of the title page of John Brown: The Most Superb Folio and Self Interpreting Bible…(Bungay, Suffolk, 1812). English. XIX cent.

NLW MSS 11738-44A (Elliss 2-8)

DIARIES

Dyddiadur; neu, Gydymaith I’r Almanac, 1827, 1828, [The Wreath, or Ladies Complete Pocket Book] 1831, Coflyfr, neu Gydymaith I’r Almanac,
1833, and Rees’ Improved Diary and Almanack, 1843, 1845, 1846, with manuscript entries by Elizabeth Elliss. English; Welsh. XIX cent.

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NLW MSS 11745-8A (Elliss 9-12)

DIARIES

Dyddiadur; neu, Gydymaith I’r Almanac, 1829 (two copies), 1830, and Coflyfr, neu Gydymaith I’r Almanac, 1833, with manuscript entries by Sarah Ann Elliss, sister of Elizabeth Elliss. English; Welsh. XIX cent.

NLW MS 11749A ( Elliss 13)

DIARY

The Wreath, or Ladies Complete Pocket Book, 1839 with manuscript entries by Avarina Elliss, sister of Elizabeth Elliss and of Sarah Ann Elliss.
English. XIX cent.

NLW MSS 11750-5A (Elliss 14-19)

DIARIES

The Daily Journal, or, Gentleman’s, Merchant’s, and Tradesman’s Complete Annual Accompt-Book…, 1824, 1825, 1826, Marshall’s Commercial Pocket Book, 1827, New Commercial Pocket Book [1833], and Rees’ Improved Diary and Almanack, 1839, with manuscript entries by [John Elliss, an uncle of Elizabeth Elliss, of Sarah Ann Elliss, and of Avarina Elliss,] of Nant-y-mwyn, Llanfair-ar-y-bryn, Co. Carmarthen, and afterwards of Aberystwyth. Many of the earlier entries, in the form of memoranda and accounts, relate to the production of ore by the writer at [Rhandir-mwyn Lead Works]. English. XIX cent.

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NLW MS 13625A (George Eyre Evans Bequest 413)

DIARY

A printed diary for 1802 compiled by, and presented to the Rt. Hon. Lady Ann Erskine, by G Thompson. Most of the manuscript entries appear to date from 1824-6. The diary apparently belonged to a member of the family of Taylor of Carmarthen and Thomas of Waun-yr-hyddod, parish of Llanboidy, and Laugharne, and afterwards of Cae-glas, Llandeilo Fawr, [all in Co. Carmarthen]. English. XIX cent.

NLW MS 13626B (George Eyre Evans Bequest 414)

JOURNAL OF A WALKING TOUR

Journal, 4-5 April 1900, of a journey undertaken by un-named companions by train to Tregaron and thence on foot the following day from Tregaron to Trawsgoed. The descriptions include the church at Tregaron and the view from the church tower, Strata Florida, Pontrhydfendigaid, Ystrad Meurig, Caradog Falls and Llanafan Bridge. English. Early XX cent.

NLW MS 3093A (Nicholas 3)

DIARY

A diary or journal, 1861-2, kept by [? Mary Rees] the wife of a Pembrokeshire minister. English. XIX cent.

NLW MS 22242C

ELLEN SOPHY RENDEL: JOURNAL 1890-1905; XX cent.

Journal, June 1890 - June 1905, with entries mainly in the hand of Ellen Sophy, wife of Stuart Rendel, Baron Rendel of Hatchlands, relating to
family life at Hatchlands, Surrey. Blank pages filled by a later hand with details of ‘excessively Rare books’ and ‘Rare Alchemical works’.
i, 161 ff. 250 x 200 mm. Leather covers, gold fillet; ‘Hatchlands 1890’ in gold on front cover. Bought from Peter Eaton. London 1986.

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NLW MS 15035-B (Clark MS)

A Diary and Household Accounts. Mrs Clark.

NLW MS 15036-B (Clark MS)

A Housekeeping Book. Mrs Clark.

NLW MS 15037-B (Clark MS)

A Housekeeping Book. Mrs Clark.

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NLW 15038-B (Clark MS)

A Housekeeping Book. Mrs Clark.

NLW MS 15039-C (Clark MS)

A Housekeeping Book. Mrs Clark.

NLW MS 15040-B (Clark MS)

Housekeeping Accounts. Mrs Clark.

NLW MS 15041-B (Clark MS)
A Housekeeping Book. Mrs Clark.

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BRYNBELLA MSS. NLW MSS 11096-104 form part of the Brynbella ‘Piozziana’ presented by Mrs K. M. Evans, Brynbella, St. Asaph,
in May 1944.

NLW MS 11096-8A (Brynbella 1-3)

DIARIES

The Daily Journal; or, Gentleman’s, Merchant’s and Tradesman’s Complete Annual Accompt-Book…, 1797, 1801, 1802, with manuscript entries by Gabriel Piozzi (d. 1809). English. XVIII-XIX cent.

NLW MS 11099A (Brynbella 4)

DIARY

Peacock’s Complete Pocket Journal and Annual Vade Mecum…, 1808, with manuscript entries by Gabriel Piozzi and (from August) Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821). English. XIX cent.

NLW MS 11100A (Brynbella 5)

DIARY

The Daily Journal…, 1809, with manuscript entries by Hester Lynch Piozzi and Gabriel Piossi. English. XIX cent.

NLW MS 11101A (Brynbella 6)

DIARY

The Comme[rcial] Pocket Jou[rnal] or, Gentleman, Merchant, and Tradesman’s Complete Annual Account Book…, 1811, with manuscript entries by Hester Lynch Piozzi. English. XIX cent.

NLW MS 11102A (Brynbella 7)

DIARY

Crosby’s Gentlemen’ s Merchants’, and Tradesmen’s Complete Pocket Book & Journal…, 1812, with manuscript entries by Hester Lynch Piozzi.
English. XIX cent.

NLW MS 11103D (Brynbella 8)

LETTERS AND MISCELLANEA

A group of holograph letters and miscellaneous papers:-a letter from E[dward] Bridge, Lleweney, to [John Salusbury of Bach-y-graig], 1756 (particulars of Mr Allwood’s survey of the Bach-y-graig estate); a proof copy of a circular from Henry Thrale to the electors of Southwark, 1765,
with manuscript corrections by Dr Samuel Johnson; a draft letter of thanks from Henry Thrale to the electors of Southwark [December, 1765], in the hand of Samuel Johnson; a bill, in French, from Henry Metman, etc., Paris, to ‘Monsieur Thralle’ for clothing, 1775; a bill, in French from [ ]
Guerrier, ‘Marchand Bonnetier’, Paris, to [Samuel] Johnson for stockings, 1775; a laundry bill, in French, for ‘Mr Jenson’ [1775]; a letter from Frances Burney, Brighthelmstone, to Doctor S Johnson, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London [1778] (correspondence between the writer and the recipient); a draft letter [1781] in the hand of Samuel Johnson concerning the putting of the brewhouse [the old Anchor Brewery in Southwark] in the hands of Robert Barclay and John Perkins; a letter (unsigned) from [Hester Lynch Thrale] to Mr Swale, 1784 (rejecting future correspondence from the recipient); a transcript of an ‘Impartial Character of Dr. Samuel Johnson’ from The European Magazine.., May 1795; a letter from ‘Edwin’, Covent Garden [London], to -, 1789 (containing an epitaph on Samuel Johnson); a passport, 1790, issued to [Marquis] de Trotti and [Abbé de] Buchetti to travel from France to London; a letter from ‘Estipee’ [Hester Lynch Piozzi?] to Messrs T[homas] Cadell, Junior, and [William] Davies, booksellers, Strand, London 1796 (comments on predictions and prophecies arising from the recipients’ ‘ingenious Work’); ‘A Christmas Carol for Brynbella 1797’, in the hand of Hester Lynch Piozzi?; a letter from [Hester Lynch Piozzi] from 43 Great Pultney Street, Bath, to [her coachman] Jacob [Weston], 1798 (news of the writer’s husband and ’our dear little Boy’ John [Salusbury Piozzi] Salusbury, the marriage of Mrs Beckwith and Thomas Davies, the gardener at Brynbella, a payment for ’our dear little Boy’s schooling, etc.); a letter (in the third person) from Wm. Henry Chambers, Holywell, to Mrs Piozzi at Bath, 1803 (literary patronage for the writer); a letter from T[homas] Shephard, Enborne [near Newbury], to Mrs Piozzi at 54 Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, London, 1810 (John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury’s tutoring account, etc.); a transcript of a letter from [Sir John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury] to condolence, regret at the recipient’s departure from Bronwylfa); two letters from Robt. Gray from Bronwylfa and Dr [Robert] Gray, 1823 (condolence, regret at the recipient’s departure from Bronwylfa); two letters from Robt. Gray from Bronwylfa and Bishop Wearmouth, to Sir John [Salusbury Piozzi] Salisbury sic at Bronwylfa, 1823 (acknowledgement of condolence, a request that the writer’s letters should not be included among the Mrs Piozzi manuscripts advertised for sale); and stanzas by Thomas Gray. The following documents have been extracted from other items in the ‘Brynbella Piozziana’ and added to the present group:- a holograph letter from Edwd. Mangin [from Bath] to Mrs Piozzi at 8 Gay Street [Bath], [1816] (accepting an invitation); a list of the names and subscriptions of the well-wishers of Sir John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury at Brynbella, 6 January 1818; and copies of correspondence between Sir John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury, James Wason, Liverpool, and Messrs Bridge & Mason, Red Lion Square [London], 1844-5, relating to claims upon, and the title to, the Bachygraig estate.
English; French. XVIII-XIX cent.

NLW MS 11104C (Brynbella 9)

SURVEY

A survey and valuation of the Bachegraig estate in the parishes of Tre Meirchion and Bodvarry, Flintshire, belonging to Gabriel Piozzi Esq., taken in the year 1790 by Samuel Minshull. Following the survey are estate accounts in the hend of Gabriel Piozzi, 1788-1807, including particulars of rents, arrears of rents, taxes, tithes and farm and household expenses; and memoranda of the letting of properties, tithes, hay, etc., by Sir John [Salusbury Piozzi) Salusbury, 1820-4. English. XIX cent

Therefore accompanying the survey is a volume of seven ink and coloured field plans, with schedules, on vellum, now shelved in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Maps. Cymru, June 1946, pp. 37-44); and five holograph letters from Diana Noel, Lady Barham, Fairy Hill [Gower], to the Reverend D[avid] Charles (1762-1834), Carmarthen, 1816-20 (the opening of one of the writer’s chapels, the writer’s health, condolence with the recipient, invitations to Fairy Hill and to the quarterly meeting at Penclawdd, personal). English. XVIII-XIX cent.

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