local interest have been arranged in seventeen other volumes. 

 Respecting portions of this varied material Mr. Latimer 

 wrote: — "The volumes containing Mr. Tyson's materials for 

 41 a history of the central parishes, Mr. Seyer's MSS. for a 

 " topographical history, the papers relating to the slave trade, 

 44 and the remarkable gathering of autographs and of local wills 

 K and pedigrees, will assuredly prove of great interest to Bristol 

 "students and antiquaries." 



Since the above was written, your Committee have been 

 much gratified at receiving valuable donations of unpublished 

 manuscripts from Alderman Fox and Mr. J. F. Eberle. 

 Details of the contents of these parcels are given in the list of 

 presentations, and their importance will be at once apparent. 

 They form parts of the manuscript material left by the Rev. 

 Samuel Seyer and Mr. Henry Bush, and as soon as Mr. Fox and 

 Mr. Eberle learned that the City was in possession of a third 

 portion, acquired by the purchase of the contents of Mr. 

 JefFeries' Bristol Room, they at once offered to present to the 

 City the other portions that had come into their possession. 

 By this means the scattered portions are again re-united, and 

 the City has become possessed of nearly the whole of these 

 miscellaneous documents that were accumulated so laboriously 

 for historical purposes. The loose documents now form five 

 portly volumes. The remainder were already in bound 

 volumes. 



Further, Mr. Latimer has dealt in the same way with a 

 large quantity of manuscript material relating to the history of 

 Bitton and Kingswood Chase, and to the Church Bells of 

 Somerset and Campanology generally, which some years ago 

 were bequeathed to the Museum Library by the late Rev. 

 H. T. Ellacombe. They represent the labour of half-a-century 

 on the part of the donor, and are now comprised in fifteen large 

 folio volumes. Canon Ellacombe, through whom they were 



