1. Add MS 72858-72864
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 72858-72864
- Title:
- PETTY PAPERS. VOLS. IX-XV. Letterbooks of Petty and his agents; 1671-1686. These were part of a sequence of volumes once in the collection of William Burton Conyngham, grandson of Mary, wife of Petty's eldest son Charles (d. 1696) by her second marriage. On his death in 1796 they were bought first by the collector Austin Cooper of Dublin (1759-1830), and then by Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1831, becoming first Phillipps MS 6486, and then 14332-14349 (see Slatter, 'Report', I, p. 113). They were ...
- Scope & Content:
- Ireland: Letterbooks rel. to Sir W. Petty's Irish estates: 1671-1700.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1671-1686
- Extent:
- 7 items