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Nassau William Senior Manuscripts (GB 0210 MSSENIOR) Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Cymorth chwilio | Finding Aid - Nassau William Senior manuscripts (GB 0210 MSSENIOR) Cynhyrchir gan Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.4.0 Argraffwyd: Medi 22, 2021 Printed: September 22, 2021 Wrth lunio'r disgrifiad hwn dilynwyd canllawiau ANW a seiliwyd ar ISAD(G) Ail Argraffiad; rheolau AACR2; ac LCSH Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH https://archifau.llyfrgell.cymru/index.php/nassau-william-senior-manuscripts https://archives.library.wales/index.php/nassau-william-senior-manuscripts Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Allt Penglais Aberystwyth Ceredigion United Kingdom SY23 3BU 01970 632 800 01970 615 709 [email protected] www.llyfrgell.cymru Nassau William Senior manuscripts Tabl cynnwys | Table of contents Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information .............................................................................................. 3 Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch ......................... 3 Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content .......................................................................................................... 4 Trefniant | Arrangement .................................................................................................................................. 4 Nodiadau | Notes ............................................................................................................................................. 4 Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points ............................................................................................................... 5 Llyfryddiaeth | Bibliography ........................................................................................................................... 5 Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions ............................................................................................................ 5 - Tudalen | Page 2 - GB 0210 MSSENIOR Nassau William Senior manuscripts Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information Lleoliad | Repository: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Teitl | Title: Nassau William Senior manuscripts ID: GB 0210 MSSENIOR Virtua system control vtls004643097 number [alternative]: Dyddiad | Date: 1790-1914 (dyddiad creu | date of creation) Disgrifiad ffisegol | 14 volumes. Physical description: Iaith | Language: English Dyddiadau creu, golygu a dileu | Dates of creation, revision and deletion: Nodyn | Note The following sources were used in the compilation of this [sourcesDescription]: description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003); Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online (viewed 2 April 2009). Nodyn | Note Title based on contents. [generalNote]: Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch Nodyn | Note Nassau William Senior (1790-1864), lawyer, author and political economist, was born at Compton Beauchamp, Berkshire, on 26 September 1790. He enrolled at Eton College in 1803 and entered Magdalen College, Oxford in 1806, graduating with a first in Classics in 1811. By this time he had already begun his career in Lincoln's Inn and it was around this time that he began writing reviews and articles of a legal or literary nature for the Quarterly Review. In 1823 he joined the recently formed Political Economy Club, remaining an active member for the next forty years. Senior was Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford, 1826-1829 and 1847-1852, was a member of the Royal Commission of Education, 1858-1861, and acted as an advisor to successive Whig administrations. He became involved in several social concerns, including the rights of factory workers and the socio- economic problems of the poor. In 1837 he published his Letters on the Factory Act as it Affects the Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 3 GB 0210 MSSENIOR Nassau William Senior manuscripts Cotton Manufacture and, in 1841, the parliamentary Report on the Condition of the Handloom Weavers. He held the then unorthodox view that government intervention in the form of capital investment should be carried out in an attempt to relieve the problems of the poor in Britain and Ireland. Senior's lifelong friendship with the political thinker and historian Alexis de Tocqueville began when the two men met in London in 1833. Senior travelled widely through Europe, mainly France and Italy, but also to the Middle East, North Africa, Ireland, and Wales and Scotland. Senior married Mary Charlotte Mair in 1821; they had a son Nassau John Senior (1822-1891) and a daughter, Mary Charlotte Mair Senior (1825-1907), latterly Mrs M. C. M. Simpson. He died in Kensington on 4 June 1864. After his death Mrs Simpson published many of his journals. Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content Papers, 1790-1914, of, or relating to, Nassau William Senior and his family. They include family correspondence, including transcripts, 1800-1912; correspondence, 1818-1863, of Nassau William Senior with various individuals, including Lord Lansdowne, [?1831]-[c. 1860], and John Murray Forbes, 1855-1863; letters to Senior from Alexis de Tocqueville, Edward Everett and George Sumner, 1842-1863, mainly relating to contemporary political events in France and the United States; papers, 1834-1837, concerning Poor Law legislation, social and religious issues in Ireland and factory regulation in the cotton industry; letters, 1855-1876, to Jane Elizabeth Senior; a journal of Senior's tour in Scotland, Ireland and Wales, [?1819]; and miscellaneous papers, including letters from statesmen and ecclesiastical dignitaries, 1790-1887, collected by Walter Nassau Senior. Nodiadau | Notes Nodiadau teitl | Title notes Ffynhonnell | Immediate source of acquisition NLW MSS 23310-23311: Jeffrey Stern, antiquarian bookseller; Heslington, York; Purchase; 1994. NLW MSS 23312-23316: Christie's; London; Purchased at auction, lots 60, 61 and 84; 12 October 1994. NLW MSS 23857-23861: Sotheby's; London; Purchased at auction, lots 36, 37, 40, 55 and 56; 19 December 2000. NLW MS 23965C: Quaritch Ltd; London; Purchase; July 2007; 004489383. Trefniant | Arrangement Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 23310-23316, 23857-23861, 23965C. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 4 GB 0210 MSSENIOR Nassau William Senior manuscripts Amodau rheoli defnydd | Conditions governing use Usual copyright laws apply. Rhestrau cymorth | Finding aids The contents of NLW MSS 23310-23316 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003). Disgrifiadau deunydd | Related material For other papers and correspondence of Nassau William Senior see NLW, Nassau Senior Papers. Nodiadau eraill | Other notes • Statws cyhoeddiad | Publication status: Published • Dynodwr sefydliad | Institution identifier: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points • Senior, Nassau William, 1790-1864 -- Archives (pwnc) | (subject) • Senior, Nassau William, 1790-1864 -- Correspondence (pwnc) | (subject) Llyfryddiaeth | Bibliography Gwyn Jenkins, 'The Nassau Senior Papers', NLWJ, 21 (1979-80), 76-84. Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions Cod cyfeirnod | Ref Teitl | Title Dyddiadau | Statws mynediad | Cynhwysydd | code Dates Access status Container NLW MS 23310C. File - Senior-Duke letters [1826x1830] NLW MS vtls004643314 23310C. NLW MS 23311E. File - Senior family correspondence 1800-1912 NLW MS vtls004643354 23311E. NLW MS 23312E. File - Nassau Senior letters to Lord 1832-1859 NLW MS vtls004643384 Lansdowne 23312E. NLW MS 23313D. File - Poor Law Bill conferences 1834 NLW MS vtls004643620 23313D. NLW MS 23314D. File - Poor Law Bill [c. 1837] NLW MS vtls004643632 23314D. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 5 GB 0210 MSSENIOR Nassau William Senior manuscripts NLW MS 23315E. File - Memoranda on Ireland [c. 1835]-[c. NLW MS vtls004643657 1837] 23315E. NLW MS 23316D. File - Cotton factories' regulation acts 1837 NLW MS vtls004643674 23316D. NLW MS 23857E. File - Letters and autographs of 1790-1887 NLW MS vtls004277150 statesmen and dignitaries 23857E. (WlAbNL)0000277150 NLW MS 23858iE. File - Letters to Nassau William Senior 1829-1859 NLW MS vtls004256400 (I) 23858iE. (WlAbNL)0000256400 NLW MS 23858iiE. File - Letters to Nassau William Senior 1818-1914 NLW MS vtls004294181 (II) 23858iiE. (WlAbNL)0000294181 NLW MS 23859C. File - Marquis of Lansdowne letters [?1831]-[c. NLW MS vtls004243003 1860] 23859C. (WlAbNL)0000243003 NLW MS 23860E. File - Nassau Senior correspondence 1842-1876 NLW MS vtls004285093 23860E. (WlAbNL)0000285093 NLW MS 23861B. File - Letters to Jane Elizabeth Senior 1855-1869 NLW MS vtls004284949 23861B. (WlAbNL)0000284949 NLW MS 23965C. File - Tour in Scotland, Ireland and [?1819] NLW MS vtls004489383 Wales 23965C; $q - Covers chipped and slightly soiled. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 6.
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