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Letters from her nephew, Francis Godolphin.

Includes letters from Robert Hoblyn, 1738-1755, some of which concern execution of the will of Ellen Godolphin, 1754, Evan and Margaret Lloyd of Bodidris, [c. 1698]-1703, Susanna Lyster, 1761, and Henrietta, Duchess of Newcastle-under-Lyne, 1749.

Almanack for 1676 containing medicinal recipes, copies of birth, baptism and burial entries of the Corbetts of Battlefield, 1629-1659, and accounts of timber and grain, 1675-1676, 1718-1719.

Minutes of meetings of an anti-papist club entitled the 'King 's Head Club', 1678-1681, and of the 'Castilians' at Oswestry, the latter listing Sir Robert Owen and Sydney Godolphin among the members, 1679.

Journals of a tour through Greece and Turkey, 1837, April 8-July 23; wrapper of first volume shows distances travelled in Greece and relevant page numbers.

Journal of Emily Charlotte Seymour, 1844, Sept. 7 - 1845, Sept. 1, and 1847, March 25 - June 13. Includes a description of the early settlement at Port Stanley on the Falkland Islands and the first governor [Richard Clement] Moody, Nov. 1844, and journeys to Callao, Lima and Panama, 1847.

Journal of Emily Charlotte Seymour, 1845, June 5-July 26, and [1847], Sept. 2-20. Contains some grammatical exercises in Spanish.

Official table and individual results slip showing examination marks achieved by George Ralph Charles Ormsby-Gore in his army entrance examinations, 1874, and a certificate for musketry training in the Coldstream Guards, 1878.

Diary of George Ralph Charles Ormsby-Gore, 1883, Jan 1-Dec. 8 (lacking May 18-June 2, and Sept. 13- Dec. 3) describing routine military duties in the Coldstream Guards at Windsor, the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace and Chelsea, followed by his resignation; his interest in country sports, cricket, racing, boating, dogs and horses; family life, social activities and contact with high society aquaintenances, including [Edward] Prince of Wales. There are occasional personal accounts and remarks on national news events.

Lecture entitled 'Literary criticism of the fine arts with illustrations from the attitude of critics toward the work of Raphael'.

Large file containing various speeches, lectures and scripts for radio broadcasts, 1940-1945.
It includes the script of W.G.A. Ormsby-Gore 's inaugural radio broadcast as UK High Commissioner in South Africa, 1941, together with his professional reports to the Dominions Office, speeches and essays on typical South African issues, such as the effects of industrialisation; agricultural production, with suggested measures for improvement; the constitution and local administrative systems under colonial government; health care and education; the development of Afrikaner nationalism; political, religious and racial relations in a cosmopolitan population; South Africa 's position in the Second World War including political relations with the resident German community; and preservation of the cultural heritage by the South African Library at Cape Town, 1942-1944. The file also contains the script of a radio broadcast about the Portuguese prime minister, Dr Salazar, 1940; a memorandum on post-war British agricultural policy, 1944; a speech given at Chatham House in 1945 on the mandate system devised by the Allied Powers after the First World War; an essay about the need for more liberal education; and several lectures and essays on Western European architecture and painting, art criticism, contemporary South African art, museums and monuments in Portugal, and English place names, 1940-1943.

Statement by a constituent to celebrate the election victory of William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore as Conservative MP for the Denbigh Boroughs [c. 1910].

A notebook and loose pedigrees, research notes, extracts, abstracts and transcripts from wills, parish registers, university records, manuscripts and printed sources, and letters mainly to Mary Jane Ormsby-Gore, showing the marital connection between Gorges of Kilkenny and Gore of Leitrim, links with other branches of the Gorges family at Kilbrew, Langford, [Wilts], Wraxhall, [Somerset], Warleigh in Tamerton Foliot, [Devon], Eye and Leominster, and their kinship with Clinton, earls of Lincoln, Crewe of Nantwich, Lane of Staffordshire, Poytnz of Iron Acton, Shirley of West Grinstead and Willoughby of Eresby, [post-1814]-1866. Several of the pedigrees illustrate the descent from Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Proprietor of Maine, New England. The notebook [post-1851] includes the relationship between the Gorges and Dobyns Yate families, an extract of the will of Thomas Gorges, D.D., Prebendary of St Peters Westminster, 1667, and a summarised history of the manor of Knighton Gorges on the Isle of Wight. Other items in the file include a transcript made in 1832 of the will of Samuel Gorges, a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland, proved in 1686; and scattered references to the Gorges heraldic arms.

Mainly pedigrees and notes, [1764]x1789, together with a letter to Mrs Ormsby-Gore, 1868, elucidating the descent of the Godolphin family and Bridgeman of Castle Bromwich from Tanat of Abertanat; the marital connections of Tanat and Godolphin with Owen of Brogyntyn; the descent of the Cornish Earls of Godolphin, Francis Baron Helston and the relationship to Dr Henry Godolphin; intermarriages through the female line with the Dukes of Newcastle and Leeds; and a marital link with the Boscawen family. The file also includes a list by Mary Godolphin of the birthdays and ages of her own family and the Sleech family of Eton, 1724; notes on the deaths and burials of Susanna Godolphin and Owen Tanat in 1724 and 1768 respectively; and an eighteenth century copy of 'Achau Teilyoedd Abertanatt' compiled by the sons of David Lloyd, c. 1400.

Genealogical papers relating to the families of Wynn(e) of Glyn, Gwydir and Peniarth who were linked by common ancestry and intermarriages. They comprise eighteenth century memoranda from papers at Glyn and pedigrees [post-1830] showing the marital connections of Wynn of Glyn with Owen of Ystumcegid, Anwyl of Park, Owen of Brogyntyn and others; extracts taken in 1790 from the parish register of Llanwddyn, Montgomeryshire, for 1665-1699; an eighteenth century pedigree of Wynne of Gwydir; and a pedigree by W.W.E. Wynne of Peniarth, 1837, tracing his own ancestry through the Wynns of Glyn back to Sir William Maurice of Clenennau.

Handwritten and printed eighteenth and nineteenth century pedigrees, notes and essays relating to miscellaneous Welsh and English families, including the ancestors and descendants of James I [post-1727]; Watkin Kyffin of Glascoed, Denbighshire, 1860; Osborn Wyddel of Llanaber, 1862; Sir Roger Puleston and others (Watermark 1824); Somerset; Mansel of Margam; and Villiers. The file also contains an essay on the tribes of Wales; a list of heraldic quarterings including those of Owen, Lacon, Wynn of Glyn, Godolphin and Tanat; and an album of well-known national and individual coats of arms.

Manuscript volume, mainly of poetry, riddles and word puzzles, 1773, 1800-1801. Some of the verses have theatrical associations and include To David Garrick esq. Upon Meeting him at Mr Rigby 's House in the Country by C. Austen and Garrick 's Answer; a dramatic poem, Prologue for Venice Preserved by Richard Cumberland, Epilogue to Venice Preserved by William Hanbury and a further Epilogue by Cumberland, performed at Kelmarsh, 1773. Other works comprise a memorial to Rev. Samuel Love, a minor canon of Bristol Cathedral, 1773, and his lines to a robin residing in the cathedral; a copy of Beddgelert [by William Robert Spencer], dated at Dolymelynllyn, 1800; and poems written at Porkington by John Kynaston, 1801. The volume also contains a copy of the retort of George Nugent Reynolds, former justice for Leitrim, to the Earl of Clare, following his dismissal from the Commission of the Peace.