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GARTHA - Garthewin Additional Papers

1 - Estate papers

2 - Family papers

1 - Deeds and documents

2 - Personalia

3 - Family correspondence

4 - Papers of Robert Oliver Francis Wynne

5 - Papers of Frances Anna [Nanette] Wynne

6 - Papers of Anita Kathleen Mary [Nina] Wynne

7 - Papers of Menna Wynne

8 - Papers of Gwyneth [Lowri] Wynne

9 - Papers of the Crowe family

1 - Diaries and notebooks of Eyre Crowe A.R.A

2 - Writings and drawings of Eyre Crowe A.R.A.

3 - Papers relating to the winding up of the estate of Eyre Crowe A.R.A.

4 - Accounts and receipts

5 - Correspondence

1 - Letter: Eyre Evans Crowe to Mrs. Pennel, reporting the birth of a second son [Joseph Archer Crowe]. Also news and gossip concerning various friends.

2 - Letter: Eyre Evans Crowe to William Pennel. Complains about the state of the money market, and says, "the crisis of the times, joined to my most unseasonable ill health, render it a trying moment to me". Also news of family and friends.

3 - Letter: Eyre Evans Crowe to William Pennel. He discusses the recent suicide of their friend Foster: "it was a cool, long, premeditated act"; also Crowe's work: "Blackwood & I are not on the best possible terms, owing to my delay of my Italian novel".

4 - Letter: Eyre Evans Crowe to William Pennel. Plans for the coming months.

5 - Letter: Eyre Evans Crowe to Mrs. Pennel. He made a recent trip to England to do some business and stayed at Lord Lansdowne's house for ten days. "I can conceive no persons more amiable or intelligent, than both Lord & Lady Lansdowne - he, and indeed both, read & taking more interested in literature than I had thought possible for either a lady of rank, or a politician". He mentions the other guests present; comments on the fashion for "a change of air"; Mrs Crowe sends thanks for the bonnet; he describes the house and garden they are settled in 6 miles from Boulogne; hopes to visit Paris and the Pennels in December.

6 - Letter: Eyre Evans Crowe to William Pennel. His wife is shortly to give birth; the children have "perfectly recovered from the hooping-cough...after the eldest [Eyre] having been at death's door - But as he is well, I will spare you the list of leeches and recipes. The root of the deadly night-shade was the medicine which we found of most effect!" He invites the Pennels to visit them at Capelle; describes briefly the advantages of the house and garden.

7 - Letter: Eyre Evans Crowe to William Pennel

8 - Letter: Eyre Evans Crowe to William Pennel. Vittoria Colonna is printed and about to be published, though "Mr. Blackwood in his spleen...has printed it off without showing a sheet to me or any competent person...and to complete my confusion he has chosen to add the title of 'a Tale of Rome in the 19th century', poor Vittoria happening to go through her adventures in the 18th - so much for booksellers, and but that I seldon swear speaking or scribbling, I should be tempted to anathematize here a little".

9 - Letter: Eyre Evans Crowe to William Pennel. Plans for the winter months, depending on finances. Having heard of Canning's death, Crowe asks Pennel to pay his subscription to Fligham's [?] Messenger, feeling that "this news renders it necessary for me to be an amant des affairs".

10 - Letter: Eyre Evans Crowe to William Pennel, referring to a letter he has received from Lord Lansdowne, the Home Secretary and a personal friend, concerning jobs and offices he has in his patronage.

11 - Letter: Eyre Evans Crowe to William Pennel. Reports his recent visit to London where he met Pennel's nephew, "a fine youth", and tried to see Miss Pennel, "but the gate being locked & the bell broken, I in vain endeavoured to make myself heard or understood".

12 - Letter: Eyre Evans Crowe to William Pennel, describing his trip to Munich and his impressions of Germany. He describes the Bavarian women: "they have the felicity of uniting two happy extremes, that of being the most uncouth and the most corrupt specimens of the female sex".

13 - Letter: J. Adams of Dublin to Miss Mary Crowe, touching business matters.

14 - Letter [?] of Bank Chambers to Miss Crowe, touching her financial affairs.

15 - Letter: Eyre Evans Crowe to his son Eyre Crowe, touching family matters.

16 - Letter: Eyre Evans Crowe to Robert [William Wynne?]. Brief mention of what Crowe's sons are doing.

17 - Letter: Arthur Coates of 77 Dame Street, Dublin, to Eyre Evans Crowe Esq., enclosing a Power of Attorney (now missing) in favour of Major Wynne in order to enable him to receive the moneys to which Crowe has been declared entitled; also instructions as to what to do next.

18 - Letter: Eyre Evans Crowe to Mrs. Pennel. He presents her with some volumes, and regrets "not being able to set forth as much in the first blank page of the work", however, "that would oblige you to shut up the volumes from mortal eye, being a secret (with me) of the first magnitude, that I am their author, for obvious reasons to any who peruse them".

19 - Letter: A. Coates of Dublin to Eyre Crowe, asking to be sent a copy of Crowe's father's Will, and touching arrangements to deal with the formalities.

20 - Letter: Eyre Crowe to Joe [Joseph Crowe]. He comments on his work: "With May Day came also the inevitable Exhibition time", and the lukewarm reactions of the critics. George's wife [Kate Bateman] has had another miscarriage, which Eyre Crowe thinks unsurprising if she carries on as an actress.

21 - Letter: A. Coates of Dublin to Eyre Crowe, touching financial matters following the death of his father.

22 - Letter: A. Coates to Eyre Crowe, touching an offer for some land, which Robert Wynne knows about.

23 - Letter: D.S. Henery [?] of New Town to Eyre Crowe Esq., touching the proposed lease of Aughaton by Clarkson.

24 - Letter: A. Coates of Dublin to Eyre Crowe, concerning the formalities after the death of Eyre Evans Crowe.

25 - Letter: A. Coates of Dublin to Eyre Crowe - he will order the map Crowe wanted.

26 - Letter: A. Coates to Eyre Crowe, enclosing a cheque for rent from Clarkson.

27 - Letter: Stanuell & Son of Dublin to Eyre Crowe Esq., at the Reform Club, Pall Mall, enclosing Fox & Corcoran's Costs of proceedings in the Land Commission Court on the application of William Clarkson, Tenant, to fix fair rent.

28 - Letter: F. Lee [?] of Dewsbury & District Technical School, to Eyre Crowe A.R.A. He wishes to take Crowe to "Roehead, Hartshead, 'Fieldhead' etc. where Brontë reminiscences abound", and reports that "the proposed Brontë society & museum has now come within the region of practical attainment".

29 - Letter: Charles Scribner's Sons, Publishers, of New York, to Eyre Crowe Esq., touching the publication of Thackeray's Haunts and Homes, and especially the practical treatment of the illustrations. A list is enclosed of the drawings to be directly reproduced, drawings to be redrawn, and those to be abandoned.

30 - Four letters pinned together - two from Charles Taylor and Son, Removals and Warehousing, to Eyre Crowe Esq., touching the purchase of furniture and pictures stored at the Depository in Southwark, for £100; a receipt for £100 from Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph & Co. of Charing Cross; and a copy letter [from Eyre Crowe?] asking to select pictures to be sold so as to wind up the outstanding liabilities.

31 - Three letters pinned together - two from the Royal Academy of Arts to Eyre Crowe A.R.A. touching the grant of a pension of £200 p.a., and one from Cocks Biddulph of Charing Cross to Eyre Crowe informing him of the receipt of £50.

32 - Letter: Cocks Biddulph of Charing Cross to Eyre Crowe A.R.A., informing him of the receipt of £25 on his account per Mr. R.W. Wynne.

33 - Letter: Cocks Biddulph of Charing Cross to Eyre Crowe A.R.A., informing him of the receipt of £25 on his account per Mr. R.W. Wynne.

34 - Letter: Eyre Crowe [son of Edward Crowe] to Dick [Richard Wynne], touching Crowe family business after the death of Eyre Crowe A.R.A. He supplies the names and addresses of his brothers and sisters, and suggests ways to deal with the division of the land.

35 - Letter: Eyre Crowe to Richard [Wynne], confirming that he will distribute the legacy cheques. He also comments on his apples, raspberries and potatoes.

36 - Letters: Herbert van Thal of London Management, 53 Upper Brook Street, London, to Mrs. A. Wynne of Garthewin, Llanfair Talhaearn, Abergele. One letter looks forward to seeing the Eyre Crowe diary, while the other regrets that "it is an immense work and I am afraid I do not see how I can possibly undertake this myself. I very much doubt whether, in these difficult days, any publisher would".

37 - Letter: Eyre Evans Crowe to William Pennel Esq., touching a sum of £25. He reflects on French politics: "The Republicans are knocked on the head for many a day, & lost in public opinion", and on the nature of public opinion: "Indifference then succeeds to zeal in the mass, and reaction to fear in the middle and upper classes. France is already at this point; and England will reach it in 1835 perhaps".

38 - Letter: Eugenie [Marie Wynne, neé Crowe] to her brother Eyre. News on the illness of Mr. Wynne, and on how her little girls are. She has heard from Amy [her sister] with the surprising news that she and Minny are getting on together. Gossip about Minny; ends "I feel quite sinister tonight so I'll stop".

39 - Letter: Margaret Ritchie to her cousin Dick [Richard Wynne], concerning the legacy left her "from dearest old Uncle Eyre". She says, "I have never had a legacy for myself before & feel very grand".

40 - Letter: Barwell to Crowe. "Don't be uneasy you shall have your usual quantity - and if you start with what you have got and leave your address others can be forwarded".

6 - Miscellaneous

3 - Miscellaneous addenda

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