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Letters to Viscount Kingsborough

Letters, July 1831-December 1836, to Viscount Kingsborough, mainly at Mitchelstown, co. Cork, from various correspondents, together with a few written by Kingsborough, concerning inter alia the antiquities of Mexico.

Kingsborough, Edward King, Viscount, 1795-1837

Letters to Viscount Kingsborough

Letters, 1830-1834, of O[badiah] Rich, London, to Edward King, Viscount Kingsborough, Mitchelstown Castle, County Cork, concerning the acquisition of Spanish books and manuscripts dealing mainly with the early history of Mexico.
[Kingsborough was the brother-in-law of Philip Davies Cooke (1793-1853).]

Rich, O. (Obadiah), 1777-1850.

Journal of tours through North Wales and France

Journal, 1815-1821, written in equal parts French and English, by Philip Davies Cooke of Gwysaney, Flintshire, of tours through North Wales and France in the company of David Pennant of Downing, Flintshire.
The entries comprise a tour of North Wales from Downing to Chirk, Denbighshire, July-[August] 1815 (English, pp. 341-368); a tour through France via Orleans, the Loire Valley, Brittany, Aunis and Saintonge, Aquitaine, Pyrenees, Languedoc, Provence, Dauphine and Lyon, May-July 1818 (English, pp.1-156); from Sheffield to Holywell, October 1819 (English, pp. 335-340); and from Paris to Champagne, Piedmont, Genoa, Provence and Nice, Monaco and Burgundy, travelling mainly by boat, October 1820-January 1821 (French, pp. 158-335). The entries emphasise the history, antiquities and culture of the places visited. The main entries are written on the versos with addenda on the rectos opposite.

Davies Cooke, Philip, 1793-1853

Bryan Cooke of Owston letter book

A letter book containing copies of letters, 14 April 1806-19 April 1820, sent by Bryan Cooke of Owston, Yorkshire, to W. WIlliams, Careglwyd, Mold, and other correspondents, concerning his estates in Wales.

Cooke, Bryan, 1756-1821

Letters of Earl Fitzwilliam, etc.

Letters, 1798-1842, mainly from William, Earl Fitzwilliam, from Milton, Northamptonshire, to Bryan Cooke at Owston, Yorkshire. The letters deal, inter alia, with local and national current political affairs.

Fitzwilliam, William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, Earl, 1748-1833

Letters concerning the Gwysaney estate

Copies of around one hundred and sixty letters, 1785-1792, written in the main by Mrs Mary Puleston of [Hafod-y-Wern, near] Wrexham, in connection with the Gwysaney estate.
Some of the letters throw light on the problems attendant upon the division of the Llannerch and Gwysaney estates in 1785.

Puleston, Mary, -1802

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