Letters and reports, 1745-1749

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17050543

Description

Title
Letters and reports, 1745-1749
Creator
From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
Published / Created
1745 April 23–1749 July 14
Description
The volume holds 266 pages of letters primarily from Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, and Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, writing from Whitehall in London. Also present are letters of instruction from George II appointing Hanbury-Williams Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of the King of Poland in 1747 (pages 13-24), his letter of revocation in 1749 for reassignment to the Court of the King of Prussia (pages 199-202), and his instructions from King George II for travel to Anspach to invest Charles William Frederick, the Margrave of Anspach, with the Ensigns of the Order of the Garter (pages 263-265). The letters in the volume were bound nearly in chronological order. Other items in the volume are a copy of a letter written in 1715 to George Townshend from members of the Board of Trade (pages 1-8) and a copy of Lord Harrington's letter to all ministers abroad regarding court couriers, with a list of charges for their trips between Whitehall or Hanover and foreign cities (pages 9-12). Near the end of the volume (pages 243-262), is a "Paper delivered by Count Fleming," in which Saxon minister Karl Georg Friedrich Flemming mentions the June 1747 "double wedding" of Bavarian Elector Maximilian Joseph and his sister Princess Maria Antonia to the Electoral Prince Friedrich Christian of Saxony and his sister Princess Maria Anna; the marriage united the ruling families of Bavaria and Saxony. The volume is untitled; it is in a stiff-board binding covered in brown paper with a blue linen spine and has no label on the front cover. The Hanbury-Williams volume number is 34; the Phillipps number is 10906.
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps of Cheltenham (MS 10876-10944 and MS 11374-11410). Purchased from William H. Robinson Ltd., June 1949. Bequest of Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (Yale 1918), 1979. Phillipps MS 10886 purchased from H. P. Kraus, 1981., Tone Sundt Urstad, in her unpublished 1987 University of Cambridge dissertation on Hanbury-Williams, describes the library’s Hanbury-Williams collection as comprising between six and seven thousand items, and relates their provenance as originating from “two different sources, the major part from the Hanbury Williams family at Coldbrook [in Wales], and about four hundred letters from Lord Essex at Cassiobury [Watford, England].” The majority of the papers descended to Hanbury-Williams's great-nephew Ferdinand Hanbury-Williams (1799-1887) when he inherited Coldbrook; he sold them in 1841 to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), a collector of books and manuscripts. Separately, George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex (1757–1839) had given the family letters to the firm of Jeffery and King to have them bound, and then neglected to retrieve them. The firm went into bankruptcy and sold the letters to the bookseller James Bohn, who sold them to Phillipps in 1840. The items in the library's Charles Hanbury-Williams Papers appear in Thomas Phillipps's Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca ([Middle Hill]: Impressus typis Medio-Montanis mense maio, 1837 [-1871]), in two blocks: the “Sir Charles Hanbury Williams’ MSS” on pages 179-180, bearing Phillipps numbers 10876 through 10944 (minus “bundles” 10921-10923 and “packets” 10941-10943) and the “Supplement to Sir Ch. H. William’s MSS” on pages 193-194 and 201, bearing Phillipps numbers 11374 through 11410 and 11660. The latter block cites Hanbury-Williams’s own volume numbers in their entries, which the first block does not. Also present in the library's Hanbury-Williams Papers are Phillipps volumes 23965 and 26018, which do not appear in his printed catalogue. Thomas Phillipps's collection was dispersed in a series of sales presided over by his grandson Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick (1856-1938). When he died, the residue passed to his nephew Alan George Fenwick who, in 1945, sold the remaining material to the London antiquarian booksellers Lionel and Philip Robinson. Wilmarth S. Lewis purchased the papers described in this collection guide from William H. Robinson Ltd. in June 1949. One additional volume (Hanbury-Williams number 26, Phillipps number 10886, in Box 51) was purchased from the New York dealer H. P. Kraus in 1981. With the 1949 purchase came an inventory of the Hanbury-Williams papers made by Thomas FitzRoy Phillipps Fenwick; this manuscript has been cataloged separately as LWL MSS 7a and is not included in this collection guide. For further information, see "The Works of Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams" by Tone Sundt Urstad, in the Lewis Walpole Library, and The Life of Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams, by the Earl of Ilchester and Mrs. Langford-Brooke (London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1928).
Language
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Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
LWL MSS 7
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Charles Hanbury-Williams Papers. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

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11404238
Object ID (OID)
17050543

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