Note books, etc. of the Rev. Hector Davies Morgan
- NLW MSS 12544B-12545B, 12546C, 12547B, 12548-12550C, 12551B, 12552C.
- File
- 1803-[?1849]
Part of Morgan Richardson manuscripts
Note books, a volume of sermons, etc., in the hand of [the Rev. Hector Davies Morgan, M.A., curate of Castle Hedingham, co. Essex, ?1809-1846, and prebendary of Trallwng in the collegiate church of Christ, Brecon, 1820-?1846].
12544B: A note book containing English poems entitled 'To Stella on the birth of Mr. John Harrison of Calcutta', 'To Miss [ ] on the birthday of her brother Mr. Thomas Harrison of Bombay', and 'Elegiac Stanzas sacred to the Memory of an Unfortunate Maniac Inscribed to Thomas Slade, Esq.', a poem invoking God's aid for Britain, passages (English) translated from or written in imitation of Horace, Pindar, Tibullus, Arist[otle], etc., and short disputations in Latin or English on academic debating points such as 'Anne amor melior imperii custos an timor' or 'An Cicero plus gloriae adeptus est a Consulatu quam ab exilio'. The volume was compiled or written at Oxford and Pentonville, 1803-1806. Pasted to the inside upper cover is a copy (printed) of An Elegy sacred to the memory of Mr. Richard Harrison who died August 18, 1802, with manuscript emendations.
12545B: Two exercise books, the first containing a Latin poem (161 lines) entitled 'Trafalgar', and the second a poem (197 lines) entitled 'Natale Solum. Poema quoddam Latinum ob positos honores Academicos conscriptum'. At the end of the second poem is a note reading 'Oxoniae Maii 2ndo 1805'.
12546C: Two exercise books, the first containing an essay entitled 'A Comparison of the Characters and Conduct of Caesar and Pompey. An English Essay. Trinity College [Oxford] 1805', and the second an oration entitled 'Pro Henrico quinto Angliae Rege Oratiuncula 1804', which had been 'Read in Hall, June 5 1804'. The second book also contains extracts from the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, with marginal annotations.
12547B: A volume of sermons preached at C[astle] Hedingham, 1835-1841.
12548-12550C: Three notebooks containing extracts, some very lengthy, from miscellaneous printed works including (Mrs.) Hamilton Gray, Tour to the Sepulchres of Etruria in 1839 [London, 1840], The Sermons of ... Hugh Latimer ... (London, 1758), Mary Roberts, The Progress of Creation ... (London, 1837), Edward Churton [archdeacon of Cleveland], The Early English Church [London, 1840], [Sir] Austen Henry Layard, Nineveh and its Remains ... (London, 1849), Henry Hammond, A Pacific[k] Discourse of God's Grace ... [London, 1660], etc.
12551B: A note book containing copious extracts from the correspondence exchanged between [John] Jebb [bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe, 1823-1833] and Alexander Knox, Esq., [and published as Thirty Years Correspondence between John Jebb and A[lexander] Knox, ed. Rev. C[harles] Forster, 2 vols. (London, 1834)].
12552C: A bound volume containing copies of an essay on 'The Influence of Education and Government on National Character', 1792, by Frodsham Hodson of Brasen Nose College [Oxford, later principal of the college, 1809-1822], and an essay on 'A Sense of Honour' [1805], by Reginald Heber of All Souls College [Oxford, later bishop of Calcutta, 1823-1826]. The essays were Oxford University English Prize essays and were published in The Oxford English Prize essays [see 1836 edition, Oxford, vols. 1 and 2]. Heber's work was also published separately as A Sense of Honour, A Prize Essay, Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1805 (Oxford, 1805).
Morgan, Hector Davies, 1785-1850