The Hastings Collection, Personal Papers, Box 18 - Memoranda book of Lucy Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1248
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1201)
Title
Memoranda book of Lucy Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
Shelfmark
The Hastings Collection, Personal Papers, Box 18
Creation Date
ca. 1630 - 1679
Contents Note

The Hastings Collection, Personal Papers, Box 18 contains twenty-eight folders. The box contains petitions, deeds, letters, and other miscellaneous materials.

Acquisition

The Hastings Collection was purchased by the Huntington Library in January 1927 from Maggs Bros. of London, who had acquired the papers from Edith Maud Abney-Hastings, Countess of Loudoun. In addition, a group of c. 100 miscellaneous Hastings manuscripts was purchased from Lady Edith Maclaren in 1977.

Source of Data

Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1982), pp. 78-82 and 138; Henry E. Huntington Library Hastings Manuscripts, ed. by Kim Watson (List & Index Record Society, 1987), pp. 213-215; Hannah Yip.

Other Note

The Hastings Collection contains 50,000 items and is the family archive for the Earls of Huntingdon, dating from 1100 to the 1890s.

URLs
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8d2200p/entire_text/ Information about the Hastings Family Papers, Online Archive of California.
GEMMS record created
September 25, 2019
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024