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Correspondence and miscellaneous items relating to the distribution of Bibles amongst army and navy personnel including twenty-four holograph or autograph letters, 1780-1794 and undated, addressed variously to The Committee of the Bible Society, The President of the Humane Society, Messrs. Audinet & Co., Mr. Tho[ma]s Dobson, the Reverend Mr. Foster, Mr. Keysall, Mr. W[illia]m Rogers, Mr. W[illia]m Surgey, and Mr. Thackray, all in London, by J. Cartwright, major in the Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia, Dorking, J. Catermole [Portsmouth], Luis Delvin, J. Doting, Spithead, Portsmouth, W[illia]m Fallowfield [?Newgate Prison] (2), F. Harrison, Chat[ha]m Dock (enclosing a letter from Thomas Turnbull and W[illia]m Savage, privates in the Goth Regiment), J[oh]n Hey [Warwickshire Militia], Tiptree Camp, B. Hudson, captain and adjutant, East York Militia, Dartford Camp, Rob[er]t Hudson, Haslar, [ ] Jones, captain, commandant of the Anglesea Regiment [of] Militia, Dartford, R. Langton, Cornhill, J. Lewis, Plymouth Dock, [ ] Middleton, W[illia]m Palmer, Chatham, Tho[ma] s Rankin, Rob[er]t Reynol[ds], Chat[ha]m, ?J. Saunders, Derbyshire Militia, Barnet, Samp[son] Stanniforth, Greenwich, W. Wallis, surgeon, H.M.S. Minerva, Portsmouth, Mrs. Wesley, Mary bone [London], John Wingrove, Freshford, Richard Worsley, Stratford Place, and W[illia]m Young (requests for Bibles for distribution amongst army units, crews of naval vessels, military prisoners in Newgate prison, etc., acknowledgements of receipt of Bibles, matters relating to the work of distribution); a draft of an undated circular letter written by W[illia]m Surgey, as secretary of the society founded in 1780 for distributing Bibles to the army and navy, inviting recipients to assist with the work of distribution; a 'List of Subscribers for Purchasing Bibles to be distributed among ye Army and Navy . . .' (undated); a letter from J. and J. Merrill to William Surgey, London, undated (supplies of Bibles [to the society of which recipient was secretary]); three miscellaneous vouchers, 1789-1790 and undated; an English translation of a petition from 'that Part of the Welsh Militia, Viz. the Anglesey & Caerna[r]von & the Montgomry Shires, now Encamped on Dartford Common, Kent, Sepr. 21, 1780, To the Committee of the Humane Soci[ety] for Distributing Bibles for the Use of the Fleets & Army of Great Britain & Ireland', requesting a supply of Bibles in the Welsh language; an English translation of a letter addressed by 'the Montgomry Rigm[en]t of Militia at the Camp, Sepr. 21, 1780 (Dartford Common)', to the committee of the same society expressing their thanks for the fact that Bibles, ? in the Welsh language, were being distributed (this and the preceding item had been translated [from Welsh] by Rob[er]t Rowland, Cumberland Street, London); and a copy of the Report of the Proceedings of the Naval and Military Bible Society . . . for the year ending May 1841.

Seventy-one holograph letters addressed to Abraham Howell at Welshpool and Rhyl (1), by his brother Evan Howell from London, 1836-1845 and undated (personal and family matters including the writer's own career in business in London, the sending of [their sister] Ellen to school at Minsterley [co. Salop], the finding of employment for younger brothers, news in 1836 of their brother Lewis who was in America, the mental illness and the delusions suffered by [their brother] Edward in London in 1841, the birth of recipient's first child in 1841, and the physical and subsequent mental illness of [their brother] Samuel in 1843, the purchasing of books and other articles for recipient in London and arrangements for having books bound for him, the sending of newspapers from London to recipient and others including [their cousin] S[amuel] Roberts, with comments on some papers such as the Observer, Sunday Times, Bells [New Weekly Messenger], the Examiner and the Spectator (1836), the imprisonment of Jack Jones of Llanbrynmair in Newgate for theft, visits to London by the writer's cousin John Roberts in 1836 and 1841, and a sermon preached by him on the first occasion, lectures by a clergyman called Denham [? the Reverend Joshua Frederick Denham, rector of St. Mary's le Strand, London, 1839-1861] at St. Bride's, Fleet Street, in 1838, comments on the Tories in 1838 and on Sir John Conroy's friendliness with ministers and all around the court, enquiries at the Herald's Office in 1838 with regard to a grant of arms [? on behalf of recipient], the choice made by the Montgomery boroughs in the [parliamentary election of June 1841], provisions made in the will of [Charles] Maddison, father of the Rev[eren]d John George Maddison [rector of West Monkton, co. Somerset, 1825-1847], and mention of the Coalport Porcelain works in connection therewith, news of acquaintances) (the writer occasionally writes a few sentences of a letter in shorthand).