Lady Anne Campbell was born approximately 1715 and died in 1785. She was the wife of the 2nd Earl of Stafford.
Portraits St896 no. 1++
Acquired September 2016
42 P771 784
Acquired September 2016
Quarto 123 B357 886
Acquired September 2016
523 F27 786
Acquired September 2016
A manuscript with 78 leaves (54 are blank) in two hands, of the fee farm rents belonging to the Right Honourable Lord Walpole, and to Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. The first half of the volume lists the names, locations, rentals, details of payment etc. in columns in a fine hand. The second half of the volume in the second hand, divides the pages between debtor and creditor. In 1760, Lord Walpole received 76 rents but by 1807, the figure appears to have been reduced to 59, with many properties having been sold.
Title: A rental of the fee farm rents belonging to the Right Honourable Lord Walpole, and to Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, 1760-1814.
LWL Mss Vol. 228
Acquired September 2016
Sixty-five manuscript notecard or notecard fascicles (each consisting of a varying number of loosely stitched to head with variously coloured threads), composed in a neat and small hand, mostly to both sides of each card. In at least two hands, several variously initialled at end ‘S.W.’, ‘R.W.’ and ‘M.W.’ Some cards are dated to the 1790s, and very occasionally a location, such as ‘Whitby’, is added. Apparently used as a form of Georgian commonplace, this collection consists of manuscript transcriptions of poems, prose and notable correspondence. Selected poetry includes pieces by Mrs Chapone, Sheridan, Cowper, Della Crusca (‘The Slave. An Elegy’), Charlotte Smith, MacKenzie and Ireland (Hogarth illustrated). Prose includes ‘An Original letter from Sir Robt. Walpole’, ‘Pieces of conjugal happiness address’d to a Lady on her Marriage by Dr. Langhorne’, ‘Virtue & Good Order. To Mrs Hume’ and four lengthy pieces entitled ‘The married man & Batchelor contrasted’, with arguments in favour and against marriage from the single and married perspective. Several of the pieces appeared in various literary magazines and such publication series as Charles Dilly’s Elegant Extracts (London, 1780s-90s), and it is likely that these extracts were copied from such compilations of short works.
Title: A collection of Georgian poetry and prose, ca. 1790.
LWL Mss Vol. 223
Acquired September 2016