Add MS 71096

John Charles Herries. Vol. i (ff. 79).

Contents:

1. ff. 1-3. Letter to Charles Herries from Spencer Perceval, concerning the appointment of the former’s son, J. C. Herries, to be his private secretary; 26 Mar. 1807.

2. ff. 4-8v. Letters to Herries from Perceval, 24 Feb. 1810, 21 Aug. 1811; the latter appointing Herries to be Commissary in Chief to the British Army; 1810, 1811.

3. ff. 9-16v. Letters to Charles Herries from Richard Cumberland, dramatist and formerly secretary to the Board of Trade; 1808-1811. With the last letter were enclosed a poem and a letter for Spencer Perceval; the letter is still in the collection, but not the poem.

4. ff. 17-19v. Letter from Sarah, wife of J. C. Herries, to her father John Dorington, Boulogne, 1 May 1814, while accompanying her husband on his mission to negotiate with the allies in Paris, after Napoleon’s abdication; possibly the missing first letter in the series in Add. 71096, ff. 20-70v, see below.

5. ff. 20-70v. Letters from Sarah Herries to her mother Mrs S. Dorington, with one letter to her father John Dorington, Clerk of Fees at the House of Commons [1814]; the first letter from France is missing (see above); most were written during Sarah’s journey to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam with her husband when the latter was engaged on financial business for Wellington’s Army [April - June 1814]. The letters describe ordinary and social life in France, the Herries’s visits to theatres, palaces, and museums, and their encounters with French, British and other royalty and nobility; May - June 1814. Three later letters describe visits to Brockwell [Yorkshire?], Keswick and Tunbridge Wells [15 Aug. 1814 - 4 Aug.1816?]. The Keswick letter [bef. Sept.1814?; see entry for Aug. 1814 in Add. 71097 (f. 4r)] refers to an ascent of Skiddaw and, briefly, to a visit to Southey; 1814 - [1816].

6. ff. 71. Letter from the same to her friends Ann and Fanny James on her engagement to J. C. Herries; kept in an envelope addressed by J. C. Herries (?) to his daughter, Isabella Ann (f. 73); [1813 - early 1814].

7. ff. 74-77v. Two letters from J. C. Herries to Mrs S. Dorington on the death of Sarah; 1821.

8. ff. 78. Letter from Mrs Dorington to Sarah’s daughter, Isabella; 1833.

Sarah Herries, wife of J C Herries, MP: Correspondence and papers of and rel. to Sarah Herries: 1814-1833, n.d.

includes:

• f. 2 Hon Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister: Charles Herries, merchant, of London: Letter to Charles Herries from Spencer Perceval: 1807: Signed.
• ff. 4, 7 Hon Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister: John Charles Herries, statesman: Letters to J.C.Herries from Spencer Perceval: 1810, 1811: Signed.
• ff. 10-14v Richard Cumberland, dramatist: Charles Herries, merchant, of London: Letters to Charles Herries from Richard Cumberland: 1808-1811: Signed.
• f. 15 Hon Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister: Richard Cumberland, dramatist: Letter to Spencer Perceval from Richard Cumberland: 1811: Signed.
• ff. 17, 65 Sarah Herries, wife of J C Herries, MP: John Dorington, Clerk of Fees of the House of Commons: Letters to John Dorington from his daughter Sarah Herries: 1814.
• ff. 20-70v Louis XVIII of France: Account of a journey to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam, by Sarah Herries: 1814.
• ff. 20-70v, passim Sarah Herries, wife of J C Herries, MP: Sarah Columbine Dorington, mother of Sarah Herries: Letters to Mrs S. Dorington from Sarah Herries: 1814, 1816.
• f. 65 Voyages and Travels: Skiddaw, Cumberland: Account by Sarah Herries of ascent of Skiddaw: [1814?].
• f. 67 Robert Southey, poet: Note of a visit to Robert Southey: [bef. Sept. 1814?].
• f. 71 Sarah Herries, wife of J C Herries, MP: Letter to her friends Ann and Fanny James: [1813-1814].
• f. 73 John Charles Herries, statesman: Envelope addressed by, to his daughter, Isabella Ann: [1813-1814?].
• ff. 74, 76 Sarah Columbine Dorington, mother of Sarah Herries: John Charles Herries, statesman: Letters to Mrs S. C. Dorington from John Charles Herries: 1821.
• f. 78 Sarah Columbine Dorington, mother of Sarah Herries: Isabella Ann Herries, daughter of Sarah Herries: Letter to her granddaughter, Isabella A. Herries, from Mrs S. C. Dorington: 1833.