File NLW MS 12409E. - Letters to Mrs Dorothea Lloyd,

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NLW MS 12409E.

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Letters to Mrs Dorothea Lloyd,

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  • 1768-1797. (Creation)

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Twenty-five holograph letters to Mrs. [Dorothea] Lloyd, wife of Howel Lloyd, at Havodunos, etc. The writers include Ann Jemima Clough, Eriviatt, 1796-1797 (3) (proposed visits to the recipient, the health of the Bishop [of St. Asaph], personal), John Collingridge, Theobald's Road, 1792 (enclosing an account for the coach and harness), Marg. Dod, undated (thanks for Deboray), Holl[an]d Griffith, Carreglwyd, 1788 and undated (2) (the late Mrs. Wickham's will, personal, busy with trees, news of relatives and friends), Catharine Hughes, London, 1788 (the writer's share of the £60 left to her by her uncle Jno. Conway of Efenechtyd), Edw. Jones, Ruthin, 1779 (requiring attestation of the handwriting of the recipient's brother, in connection with an inventory of papers relating to the wardenship of the Hospital), S. Leche, Emral, undated (thanks for a nurse, the writer's health, the death of Mrs. Pugh, 'Die's marriage, references to Whitchurch Races), Dorothea Lloyd [recipient's daughter], Lower Grosvenor Street, 1771 (personal, references to Mrs. Burdet, Miss Meredith, etc.), M[ary] Lloyd, Whitchurch, [17]89 (a proposed visit to the recipient), Phoe[be] Lloyd [niece of the recipient], 1785 (the death of 'poor Hedd'), Cath. Potter ['sister' of the recipient], 1768 (the illness and death of the writer's children, references to relatives), Catharine Potter [niece of the recipient], Barkely, 1775 (2) (the health of the writer's and the recipient's family) (with one addition by [Mrs. Catherine Potter]), M. E. Potter (daughter of the recipient], South H. Street [1797] (the settlement of the recipient's legal business with Mr. Philpott, news of relatives and friends, a reference to the new coinage), Edward Smedley, 1789 (the death of Jane, daughter of the writer's brother and sister[-in-law] (together with a draft or copy of a letter of condolence by the recipient to 'Cousin Smedley'), J. Smedley, College Street [London, 1788] (thanks for a present, the writer's health, news of the writer's family), T. Smedley, Smith Street, Westminster (in the third person), 1782 (thanks for kindness to the writer's family during their separation from the writer, the writer's improving prospects), D. Wickham, Horsington, 1764 (health matters, news of relatives), Mary Wickham, Frome, 1775 (2) (the health of sister Potter), and Wm. Wicksteed, Mount and Soughton, 1790 and undated (2) (legacies left by Aunt Lloyd to her husband's relations, thanks for riotous week).

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English.

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The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).

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Formerly known as Wigfair 9.

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Preferred citation: NLW MS 12409E.

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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