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Cotton, Hester Maria, of Combermere Abbey
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Letters

One of eight volumes consisting of several hundred letters, chiefly of the first half of the nineteenth century, written mainly to John Jenkins and his wife, to Walter Davies and his daughter Jane, and to John Vaughan (Penmaen Dyfi) and other members of his family, by numerous correspondents, including: D. Bird Allen, Thomas Beynon (archdeacon of Cardigan), C. W. Bowen (Kidwelly), J. Bowen (Bath), J. Bowen (Llechryd), Samuel Bowen (Newtown), Edward Breese, Samuel Butler (Shrewsbury), R. Myddelton Biddulph, John Blackwell (Alun), Thomas Burgess (bishop of St. Davids), Lord Carrington (chairman of the Board of Agriculture), Thomas Clarkson (philanthropist), W. Cleaver (Denbigh), Hester Maria Cotton, William Cragg (Board of Agriculture), Alfred Butler Clough, and Roger B. Clough.

Letters to Fanny Williams Wynn,

Autograph letters, 1784-1885, including letters to Frances (Fanny) Williams Wynn from her mother, her brothers Charles and Henry, her sisters Henrietta and Charlotte, Hester Cotton and Mary Cunliffe, to Jonathan Shipley (bishop of St Asaph) from William Henry Cavendish Bentinck (third duke of Portland), and to William Davies Shipley (dean of St Asaph) from Philip Yorke and William Cleaver (bishop of St Asaph); papers relating to the private theatre at Wynnstay; a note in the autograph of Sarah Ponsonby, one of the 'ladies of Llangollen'; etc.

Merched

Research papers, [1970s]-1999, of Mari Ellis relating to notable Welsh women, comprising a notebook containing notes and transcripts relating to Jane Davies (daughter of Gwallter Mechain) and her family (ME 3/1); various manuscript drafts of a speech entitled 'Y Gegin a'r Parlwr. Upstairs Downstairs', some incomplete, some re-used in later drafts, etc., together with miscellaneous notes on women, [1970s]-1991 (ME 3/2); the manuscript of a speech entitled 'Family life in the [nineteenth century]' (ME 3/3); draft articles and notes on Winnie Parry, Fanny Edwards, Hester Cotton and others, [1970s]-[1980s] (ME 3/4); and papers, 1997-1999, relating to the proposed Bywgraffiadur Merched Cymru yn y Celfyddydau ['Biography of Welsh Women in the Arts'], comprising articles (about a dozen in all, including Angharad Llwyd, Marion Eames and Meg Elis), notes and correspondence with Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan (one of the editors) (ME 3/5).

Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen.