| Description | 10 handwritten pages of reminiscences of Edward Pleydell-Bouverie (1818-1889), the second son of William, 3rd Earl of Radnor (1779-1869) and MP for Kilmarnock, mainly to do with family history, including the Mildmays and Duncombes, and his early life and schooling at Harrow, Nelson's and Trinity College, Cambridge; among contemporaries mentioned are Henry Moreton and Adolphus Liddell, as well as a serious hunting accident involving his father; several pages are missing and the final page comments on various trips to Paris from the 1820s onwards, nearly always at times of political crisis |