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Leather-bound volume with tape fastenings. Modern table of contents pasted on first page. Text scratched out at the top of the first page may include a name. Volume is unpaginated and unfoliated.

The sermon is written on a small pamphlet fastened with a single pin in a neat hand.

Almost entirely written in shorthand. Paper pamphlets of varying sizes.

The name William Carse appears facing the first page of text. A later hand has written in pencil, "John Spear[?] February 20th 1818. Edinbro." Joshua Wilson stamp on first page of text. Various other names and pen trials on both end papers.

The hands in this manuscript are clear and easy to decipher. Brief comments are interspersed with sermons and sermon notes, but it is easy to distinguish sermon content from other notes.

The manuscript comprises folio leaves paginated on both recto and verso (1-142). The rest of the manuscript comprises unpaginated, blank folios. Each page is ruled and extracts are separated by clear lines. The handwriting is very clear and there are no corrections. The extracts from sermons preached appear to be fair copies.

98 folios (181 pages). The handwriting is clear and elegant, and the entire manuscript appears to be in this one hand.

The individual mounted papers are in very good condition, but the binding has detached and the volume as a whole is coming apart.

Pp. 1-2 are missing; the volume extends from pp. 3-547.

ff. vi and 423 pages. These are fair copies in a large, neat italic hand in dark ink throughout. All of the sermons are in the hand of the same scribe, most likely Richard Northcote.

All of these materials are loose papers in a box. Some are 18th-century copies of earlier materials.They are in fairly good shape and easy to read, although the edges of the pages and their pale blue paper covers are tattered.

All of the materials are foliated continuously but are only tangentially related.

The volume comprises fair copies of the sermons illustrating the subjects of the volume, in the same hand, with red ruled margins. The binding has come away from the manuscript, but the leaves are in excellent condition and the hand is neat and legible. pp. [i], 389.

4to.pp.[i],442. The manuscript is in better condition than MS 24.16 (the first volume). The binding is intact. The pages are ruled in red ink, and the lectures are copied in the same neat, clear hand as Volume 1 of Howe's Principles.

The volume's contents are written in the same hand (not the same hand as in MSS 24.16 and 24.17). The hand is neat, and the pages are ruled in red on four sides, as with the previous two manuscripts in this series. The text on which the lecture is preached is not always indicated. At times, there is bleed-through (the quality of the paper is not uniform) and the writing is difficult to decipher. The boards have become detached from the manuscript. More than half the manuscript is blank (the leaves unfoliated or unpaginated).

The manuscript is foliated and contains 8 blank leaves, title page, dedication, and the sermon, followed by 16 blank leaves. Calf binding with gilt.

The sermon is written in a beautiful late-17th-century hand, inside double-ruled red lines with wide margins in which are written divisions and scriptural texts.

This is a small manuscript bound in black paper boards. At the end the scribe
has put: ‘S.G. defuncti amicus, socius & amator cordatissimus moerore ac dolore
plenus, adscripsit, 25o die Januarii. An. Dom. 1705/6.’

The front board is detached from the manuscript. Running heads at the top of each page give a sense of the substance and content of the material on the page. The volume is paginated in the same black ink used by the scribe, so is contemporaneous.

The handwriting is large and scrawled, in dark ink. In lighter ink, but still in a contemporary hand, is written "Dorothy Thelwall." In light ink but in a different hand is written "Daughter of Eubule Thelwall of Nantelwyd, Esquire ---- aged 16." It appears that this volume was the property of Dorothy Thelwall.