Five manuscript documents bound together

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Title: Five manuscript documents bound together
Creator: From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
Published / Created: 1584 1717
Description: The volume consists of five separate documents bound together; they are unrelated in hand, format, date, and topic though four of the five concern Ireland. Further content description and analysis was supplied at the item level by David Brown, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin, in December 2023. The volume is in a stiff-board binding covered in brown paper with a blue cloth spine, with printed CH-W and Phillipps number labels on the spine. The Hanbury-Williams volume number is 42; the Phillipps number is 11409.
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 Phillipps MS 10886 purchased from H. P. Kraus, 1981., Tone Sundt Urstad, in her unpublished 1987 University of Cambridge dissertation on Hanbury-Williams, describes the library’s Hanbury-Williams collection as comprising between six and seven thousand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).
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