Papers of the Cavendish-Talbot family [manuscript], 1333-1705 (bulk 1548-1676).
Variant title
Folger card catalog title: Letters to and from herself [i.e. Elizabeth Hardwick Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury] and various members of her family, as well as letters of the Wentworth, Slingsby, Style and Gower families
Description
203 items (4 boxes).
Organization and arrangement
Series 1: Cavendish and Talbot family papers, 1548-1607 (1-147); Series 2: Wentworth family papers, [1542?], 1624-1705 (148-169); Series 3: Slingsby family letters, 1586-1634 (170-194); Series 4: Sir Humphrey Style letter, ca. 1629 (195); Series 5: Gower family letters, 1636-1658 (196-200); Series 6: Miscellaneous documents, 1500-1548 (201-203).
Mostly consists of correspondence, as well as various financial documents, warrants, petitions, orders, physician instructions and other miscellaneous documents relating to the Cavendish, Talbot, Wentworth, and Slingsby families as well as to Sir Humphrey Style, and Stanley and Sarah Gower. Correspondents and recipients include but not limited to: Bess Hardwick, her husbands including the Earl of Shrewsbury (George Talbot) and his son Gilbert, and Henry Slingsby.
Note
Sometimes referred to as the Cavendish-Talbot manuscripts.
Some items transcribed in: Hallamshire : the history and topography of the parish of Sheffield in the county of York / Joseph Hunter. London : Printed for the editor by Virtue and co., 1869.
Finding aid
For a fuller description or context, see online finding aid.
Finding aid identifier
C38835
Publications about material
Rastas, Johanna. ""By my Lords comand, I am to acquainte you”: An Edition of the Seventeenth-Century Correspondence of the Wentworth Family in the Folger Shakespeare Library." MA thesis, University of Turku, 2016. Doria (http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2016092324258).
Provenance
John Wilson of Broomhead Hall, near Sheffield -- Phillipps MS.
Exhibited
X.d.428 (87, 128, 130) Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2003. Elizabeth I (catalog p. 83, 109) X.d.428 (60): Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2008-2009. Breaking News (catalog entry 1) X.d.428 (77, 104, 158) Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004-2005. Letterwriting in Renaissance England (catalog entry 22, 44, 71)
