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Add MS 89036/1/18
- Record Id:
- 040-002481013
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002431741
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100002691962.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89036/1/18
- Title:
- William Dacres Adams: Letters Received from Lady Augusta Murray
- Scope & Content:
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In the main, letters received in 1805 by William Dacres Adams from Lady Augusta Murray (1768-1830). Includes a letter from Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, to Lady Augusta (see item 66 below). Numbering continues from Add MS 89036/1/17.
- 57A. Brief biographical note regarding Lady Augusta, by Mayow Wynell Adams (1808-1898).
- 58. Lady Augusta to Adams, [14 March 1805]. Refers to an enclosed Writ for £200. 'I earnestly entreat you to communicate the circumstance to Mr. Pitt immediately & to inform me whether I am to go to prison, or to hope immediate relief from him'. Originally enclosing 58(i).
- 58(i). 30 Wych St., St. Clements, H. Beaumont to [Lady Augusta], 13 March 1805. 'I beg to inform your Ladyship that I have got a writ agt. you for two hundred pounds ... appearance on 28 April.'
- 59. 19 Berk[e]ley Square, to the H.R.H. The Duchess of Sussex [Lady Augusta], 18 March 1805. Seeking to recover money owed.
- 60. Lady Augusta to Adams, 28 March 1805. Seeking financial assistance, and enclosing 60(i).
- 60(i). Blandford & Sweet to G. B. Tyndale, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 29 April 1805.
- 61-61(i). Lady Augusta to Adams. No date. 'I am come to London to go to prison'. 'Pray make Mr. Pitt read the enclosed note, and do pray let me have a ten minutes interview with him'. Originally enclosing 61(ii).
- 61(ii). 59 Frith Street, Soho Square, E. Rogers to The Duchess of Sussex, 4 May 1805. Legal advice.
- 62. [Lady Augusta] to Adams, [early May 1805]. Unsigned letter (?fragment) without date. Imploring Adams to 'represent to Mr. Pitt' her 'misfortunes'.
- 63. Lady Augusta to Viscount Fincastle, 'Friday morn' [May 1805]. Originally enclosing 63(i).
- 63(i). Joseph Jones to [Lady Augusta], [May 1805]. Letter from tradesman refusing more credit.
- 63(ii). London, Viscount Fincastle to [Adams], 24 May 1805. Lady Augusta's 'Bail expires tomorrow'.
- 64. Lady Augusta to Adams, 30 May 1805. 'Let me have Mr. Pitt's decision as soon as it can be had',
- 65. Lady Augusta to Pitt, 17 June 1805. Proposing that Pitt becomes the Trustee of her son.
- 66. No. 21, Prince Augustus Frederick, [Duke of Sussex], to H.R.H. Princess Augustus Frederick, 2 May 1795. Letter with wrapper. 'Though the Post is So Very Treacherous My Dearest Augusta and that perhaps my Letters will never get to you yet I Can not allow myself to be deprived of the Pleasure of Corresponding with my Dear Wife....'
- 67. Lady Augusta to Adams, [1805]. Seeking a title and rank for herself and her children.
- 68. Lady Augusta to Adams, [1805]. Refers to Pitt about to see her brother and Mr. Adam.
- 69. Lady Augusta to Adams, [1805]. 'Mr. Pitt has given me no answer about the Guardianship of my Boy, but my Brother seems to think he will not consent to it from his manner of mentioning it to him.'
- 70. Lady Augusta to Adams, [1805].
- 71. 159 New Bond St., Lady Augusta to Adams, [1805]. Refers to Lord Dunmore.
- 72. Lady Augusta to Adams, [1805].
- 73. Lady Augusta to Adams, 'Monday Morn' [1805]. 'I must now be detained Prisoner in my own House, until Mr. Pitt determines a better fate for me.'
- 74. Lady Augusta to Adams, [1805].
- 75. Lady Augusta to Adams, 'Wednesday' [1805]. Seeking money to travel to Ramsgate to see her daughter: 'My Girl's Eye is to have Leaches [sic] ... & unless she is sitting on my Lap, she will not suffer them on.'
- 76. Lady Augusta to Adams, 'Wednesday night' [1805]. Inviting him to dine with her on Friday. 'Have you forgiven my sending to you (in order to get rid of them myself) the Tax gatherers?'
- 77. Lady Augusta to Adams, 'Tuesday Morn' [1805]. Informing him that she has sent the 'Tax gatherers' to Pitt. (This letter appears to precede item 76).
- 77(i). Lady Augusta to Adams, 3 May 1807. Continuing financial problems.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002431741
036-002431785
040-002481013 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89036 : The Papers of William Dacres Adams, including Political Papers of William Pitt, the Younger
Add MS 89036/1 : William Dacres Adams: Political Papers of William Pitt, the Younger
Add MS 89036/1/18 : William Dacres Adams: Letters Received from Lady Augusta Murray - Hierarchy:
- 032-002431741[0001]/036-002431785[0018]/040-002481013
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89036
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1795
- End Date:
- 1807
- Date Range:
- 1795-1807
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- PRO 30 58/7
- Arrangement:
- Although the letters from Lady Augusta Murray to Dacres Adams do not form part of Pitt's political correspondence, the file is included within Add MS 89036/1 in order to maintain the former order of PRO 30 58/7, as the bundle was identified when in the custody of the Public Record Office (now, The National Archives). Public Record Office numbering remains, in red pencil, at the top left of each sheet or letter. The original bundle has been divided into three consecutive files: Add MS 89036/1/17-19.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, 6th son of George III, 1773-1843
Murray, Augusta, afterwards D'Ameland, wife of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, 1768-1830