File NLW MS 24218i-iiB. - Rev. William Howels sermons

Two manuscript volumes, the first dated 1829 (watermarks 1829 in both), containing transcripts, by W[illiam] Bruce, of sermons of the Rev. William Howels preached at Long Acre Episcopal Chapel, London (eleven in NLW MS 24218iB and ten in NLW MS 24218iiB).
The sermons were originally recorded by Bruce in shorthand, then transcribed into the present volumes (see pencil note on MS 24218iB, p. 3). The main text is mostly written within a red ink frame, with marginal comments and annotations in ink and sporadic corrections and deletions in pencil. The sermons are occasionally interspersed with other material including excerpts from hymns by [John] Newton, [Isaac Watts], [Charles Wesley] and [James Montgomery] (MS 24218iB, pp. 137, 180-181, 293, 394; MS 24218iiB, ff. 40 verso, 66, 171 verso-172); NLW MS 24218iB also contains a title page (p. 1) and list of contents (p. 5). Of the twenty-one sermons, five were published by Bruce in Twenty Sermons by the Late Rev. William Howels (London, 1835) (MS 24218iB, pp. 7-48, 55-96, 183-230 and MS 24218iiB, ff. 1-16 verso, 41-40 verso). A subsequent volume edited by Bruce, Choice Sentences: or, Recollections of the Ministry of the Late Rev. William Howels… (Sheffield, 1849) was not seen by the cataloguer but presumably also makes use of the present volumes.