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Sixty-one holograph and autograph letters, notes, etc., addressed to John Lloyd at Garden Court, London, at Hafodunos near St. Asaph, at Wigfair near St. Asaph and elsewhere, 1776-1814.
They comprise letters, etc., from Joseph Elkington, Birmingham and Wooburn, 1796 and undated (4) (personal, locations of places where the writer had undertaken the job of underdraining); Tho[ma]s Ellis, Rhosfynnach [co. ?], 1804 (the erection of a hut and beacon, a trial fire on the Bodavon mountain beacon); [Sir] Henry C[harles] Englefield, London and Cheltenham, 1782 and undated (4) (personal news, the death of his uncle Sir Ch[arles Louis] Buck, the confusion in the ministry caused by the death of Lord Rock[ingham], comments on scientific instruments); Kathe[rine] Englefield [?Lady Englefield, mother of Sir Henry aforementioned], London, 1785 (personal); J[ohn] Evans, Wynnstay, 1794 (a map which the writer was ? compiling, a request for a sketch of the park at Kinmel); [Sir] George [Augustus William] Shuckburgh Evelyn [the additional name of Evelyn having been assumed in 1793], Shuckburgh Park, [Warwickshire], Felbridge near East Grinsted, Sussex, East Bourne, Westminster, Geneva, etc., 1778-1801 and undated (31) (personal news, news of mutual acquaintances, the construction of an astronomical edifice at Havodunos (1778), a request to Lloyd to call on Walther's, the bookbinder in Castle Court, the Strand [London], sums paid to [Jesse] Ramsden in respect of an 'equatorial' cum pertinentibus [at Shuckburgh] (1789), the death of [Major] General [William] Roy and concern regarding his calculations, books, etc. (1790), peace with Spain (1790), talk of a coalition between Pitt and Fox (1790), the birth of a daughter to Lady Shuckburgh and the writer (1790), comments on barometrical observations, refraction, etc., observations of the solstice in order to determine the obliquity of the ecliptic (1791), a request for an opinion on the writer's account of the equatorial [An Account of the Equatorial Instrument. From the Philosophical Transactions, London?, 1793?], the defeat of the French (1794), the assumption by the writer of the additional name of Evelyn (1794), fine harvests (1795), the writer's intention 'to determine the length of the Pendulum in order to ascertain a fixed Standard for weights and measures' and preparations for this (1795), 'troublesome Assemblies' and a 'disposition to rio[ts]' in recipient's neighbourhood, the need for vigour and firmness to stop such conduct and the necessity of stopping 'the common people' from taking the law into their own hands (1795), riots and meetings in London to petition against the two Bills (1795) [?the Seditious Meetings Act and the Treasonable Practices Act], the writer's election (1796) [?re-election as Member of Parliament for the county of Warwick], the death of Lady Shuckburgh's uncle, Mr. Medley and his bequest of his property to Lady Shuckburgh and the writer (1796), experiments with the pendulum and the new scales from Troughton and work with regard to weights and measures (1796), the spread of 'the flame of war', the accumulation of private and public debts, the King's illness, the abandonment of the helm by ministers 'in a moment of such danger' and 'for such a miserable pretext as the Catholic question' (1801), an expedition to Mt. Saleve and barometrical and trigonometrical observations and a proposal to measure the height of Mt. Blanc 'by a suite of triangles'); Thomas Fairbairn, Spring Grove, 1812 (questions re. fruit); J. Farey, Langevny, Anglesea, 1813 (arrangements in connection with a proposed mineral survey in North Wales); Cha[rle]s Finch [later Charles Griffith-Wynne], Voylas, [1806] (levies and a fine imposed on the townships of Tre Ganol and Tre Kernioge in the parish of Tir y Abbot, [Denbighshire] in respect of road mending, mention of the Denbigh road and the Great Holyhead Turnpike); T [ ] Firminger, Greenwich Royal Observatory, 1803 (enclosing tables of the geocentric motion of the planets [ie. asteroids] Pallas and Ceres Ferdinandea); Dr. J. Fisher, Doctors' Commons, 1799-1803 (2) (personal); [John Hamilton FitzMaurice, styled viscount] Kirkwall, Denbigh, Deganwy Castle and Charles St. [London], 1812-1813 and undated (6) (personal, a quest for accommodation [in London], comments on Sir Watkin [?Williams Wynn] and his regiment [? the Denbighshire militia], the prospects of peace); [Mary FitzMaurice, suo jure countess of] Orkney, Lleweny, Bath and Charles St. [London], 1793-1814 (3) (personal, the letting or selling of Fron Yew); Ja[me]s Fox, Derby, 1812 (3) (technical details relating to water closets, drying closets, washing machines, steam engines for threshing corn, etc.); and R[ichar]d Fydell, Boston, [Lincolnshire], 1776 (thanks for news of events in America).
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English, French, Italian.
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Formerly known as Wigfair 18.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 12418D.
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- Beacons -- Wales -- Anglesey.
- Scientific apparatus and instruments.
- Astronomy -- Experiments.
- Refracting telescopes -- England -- Warwickshire.
- Refraction.
- Ecliptic.
- Atmospheric pressure -- Measurement.
- Anglo-French War, 1793-1802.
- Weights and measures.
- Elections -- England -- Warwickshire.
- Riots -- England -- London.
- Trigonometry.
- Minerals -- Wales, North
- Roads -- Wales -- Denbighshire -- Maintenance and repair.
- Toll roads -- Wales -- Holyhead.
- Asteroids -- Orbits -- Tables.
- Warwickshire (England) -- Politics and government -- 18th century
- Mount Salève (Switzerland)
- Mont Blanc.
- Denbighshire (Wales) -- Militia.
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- Hafodunos Estate (Wales) (Subject)
- Great Britain. Parliament. Seditious Meetings Act, 1795. (Subject)
- Great Britain. Parliament. Treasonable Practices Act, 1795. (Subject)
- Great Britain. Parliament -- Elections, 1796. (Subject)
- Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Buck, Charles Louis, Sir, 1721-1782 -- Death and burial. (Subject)
- Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782 -- Death and burial. (Subject)
- Ramsden, J. (Jesse), 1735-1800. (Subject)
- Roy, William, 1726-1790 -- Death and burial. (Subject)
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806. (Subject)
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806. (Subject)
- Shuckburgh-Evelyn, Julia Annabella, Lady, 1757-1797 -- Family. (Subject)
- Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804 -- Family. (Subject)
- Shuckburgh-Evelyn, Julia Annabella, Lady, 1757-1797 -- Family -- Death and burial. (Subject)
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 -- Health. (Subject)
- Williams-Wynn, Watkin, 1772-1840 (Subject)
- Elkington, Joseph. (Subject)
- Ellis, Thomas, of Rhosfynach. (Subject)
- Englefield, Henry, Sir, 1752-1822. (Subject)
- Englefield, Catharine, 1725-1805. (Subject)
- Evans, John, of Wynnstay. (Subject)
- Fairbairn, Thomas, of Spring Grove. (Subject)
- Farey, John, 1766-1826. (Subject)
- Griffith-Wynne, Charles Wynn, 1780-1865. (Subject)
- Firminger, T., Greenwich Royal Observatory. (Subject)
- Fisher, J., Doctor. (Subject)
- Kirkwall, John Hamilton Fitzmaurice, Viscount, 1778-1820. (Subject)
- Orkney, Mary Fitzmaurice, Countess of, 1755-1831. (Subject)
- Fox, James, of Derby. (Subject)
- Fydell, Richard, 1709?-1780. (Subject)
- Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804 (Subject)