Letter from Edward Copleston, Oxford, to The Duke of Buckingham, 1827 March 25 : autograph manuscript signed.

Concerning a collection of letters found in 1825 by Copleston at a farm house at Stow in Kilkhampton, Cornwall, "...among these was a letter written by Sir Bevil Grenville to Sir John Trelawny upon the occasion of his joining the King's army, which appeared to me so interesting that I took a copy of his copy which was lent me for the purpose. The original I have not seen - nor do I know whether it remains among the mass of papers which I had then no time to examine, and which are now in Lord Carteret's possession at Haynes. I thought it right to inform Lord Carteret (then Lord George Thynne) of the state in which the papers were, upon which he ordered his agent to send them all to him. After he had examined them he gave me some account of them, as he owed to me the knowledge of their existence, & more especially as I had intimated a desire to look over them at some future time with a view to the publication of such as might appear to be historically important or curious. To this idea L'd Carteret decidedly objects, on ground of delicacy, as they almost all relate to affairs of a private nature. Only about two dozen, he says, out of three thousand, relate to public matters - & most of these are in the time of Sir Bevil's son - the first Lord Bath. I have enclosed a copy of Sir Bevil's letter to Sir J. Trelawny, the original of which is probably now in L'd Carteret's hands. This is certainly a most interesting document - and one which naturally excites regret that there are so few preserved by the same hand."