From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
Published / Created:
1584 1717
Call Number:
LWL MSS 7
Container / Volume:
Box 48, folder 11
Image Count:
37
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, Departm...
From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
Published / Created:
1745 April 23–1749 July 14
Call Number:
LWL MSS 7
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
270
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...
From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
Published / Created:
1731–1743
Call Number:
LWL MSS 7
Container / Volume:
Box 45, folder 20
Image Count:
111
Description:
Autograph manuscript poems cover 94 leaves (the full volume), with poems arranged/dated chronologically from 1731 to 1743. Most of the material was published in his Works, and the album pages were annotated in pencil in the twentieth century with thos...
From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
Published / Created:
1743–1744
Call Number:
LWL MSS 7
Container / Volume:
Box 45, folder 21
Image Count:
71
Description:
Autograph manuscript writings cover 57 leaves (about half of the volume) in an otherwise blank book, with poems arranged/dated chronologically from 1743 to 1744. Most of the material was published in his Works, and the album pages were annotated in pe...
From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
Published / Created:
1717–1719
Call Number:
LWL MSS 7
Container / Volume:
Box 52, folder 25
Image Count:
84
Description:
Charles Williams was a native of Caerleon, and had a successful career in Smyrna when he fled Wales after killing his cousin in a duel. He returned to London as a financier in the 1690s and befriended John Hanbury. When he died in 1720 he left his est...