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Title
Mary Heywood - letterbook, mainly concerning Peter Heywood, 1790-1792; and verse, 1786-1795
Creator
Mary Heywood, b. 1766
Call number
MLMSS 5719 (Safe 1/127)
Level of description
fonds
Date

1786-1795
Type of material
Textual Records, Drawings
Reference code
414477
Issue Copy
Digitised : from microfilm 2015
Physical Description
0.1 metres of textual material (1 box) - manuscript
2 drawings (p. 146) - watercolour vignettes
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

This volume of verse and correspondence is one of five known versions compiled for various members of the Heywood family. It includes prose and verse collected or composed by Nessy (Hester) Heywood, her friends and sisters, and also copies of the correspondence of Nessy and other family members following Peter Heywood's arrest for his alleged role in the mutiny against William Bligh on H.M.S. Bounty. The volume seems to have been compiled by Mary Heywood, the eldest of the Heywood children, although, as Mary acknowledges, it is `...principally the Composition of my beloved Sister Nessy Heywood.' (p. 309). It was passed to Mary's niece, Bessy Fleetwood, the daughter of Edwin Holwell Heywood, Peter Heywood's younger brother.
Peter Heywood made his first voyage as a Midshipman on board the H.M.S. Bounty under the command of Lieutenant William Bligh. The Bounty sailed from England in December 1787 and arrived in Tahiti in October 1788 where they remained for six months. On 20 April 1789, after sailing from Tahiti, Bligh lost the Bounty in a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian.
Peter Heywood remained with the mutineers on board the Bounty which sailed first to Tahiti, then to Pitcairn Island. Heywood was one of a group of fourteen who remained on Tahiti until the arrival of H.M.S. Pandora, sent in search of the mutineers, in March 1791. Heywood was arrested by Captain Edward Edwards as a mutineer. He survived the shipwreck of the Pandora in the Endeavour Straits, off the coast of Queensland, on 29 August 1791 and arrived in England, via Batavia and the Cape of Good Hope, in June 1792.
On 12 September 1792, Heywood and the other Bounty prisoners were brought before a court-martial. On 18 September all the mutineers were sentenced to death. Heywood was granted an unconditional Royal Pardon on 15 October 1792.
Heywood's well connected family had lobbied intensely for his release, particularly his sister Nessy and uncles J. M. Heywood and Commodore Thomas Pasley. Pasley had secured the services of Mr A. Graham to represent Heywood, along with Francis Const. Peter Heywood was reunited with Nessy in London, on 29 October 1792, before returning to the Isle of Man.
Heywood remained in the Royal Navy, rising to the rank of Captain before his retirement in 1816. Nessy died in September 1793, less than a year after Peter Heywood's release.
Scope and Content
Verse, mainly written by Nessy Heywood, family and friends; includes poem titled `A Dream', by Peter Heywood (pp. 21-33), 1786-1793 (Call No.: pp. 1-70)
`The Innocent Sufferer', undated (Call No.: p. 72)
No. 1: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from William Bligh, 2 April 1790 (Call No.: pp. 72-73)
No. 2: Letter received by Colonel I. Holwell from William Bligh, 26 March 1790 (Call No.: p. 73)
No. 3: Letter received by Captain Shuttleworth from William Spencer Stanhope, 13 April 1790 (Call No.: p. 74)
No. 4: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from her uncle, J. M. Heywood, 4 April 1790 (Call No.: pp. 75-76)
No. 5: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Francis Heywood, 27 July 1790 (Call No.: pp. 76-77)
No. 6: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from John Hallett, 19 March 1792 (Call No.: pp. 77-78)
No. 7: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from J. M. Heywood, 12 May 1792 (Call No.: p. 78)
No. 8: Letter received by J. M. Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 3 June 1792 (Call No.: pp. 79-81)
No. 9: Letter received by Peter heywood from Nessy Heywood, 3 June 1792 (Call No.: pp. 81-85)
No. 10: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from her uncle, Captain Thomas Pasley, 8 June 1792 (Call No.: pp. 85-86)
No. 11: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from J. C. Curwen, 21 June 1792 (Call No.: pp. 86-87)
No. 12: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from J. M. Heywood, 22 June 1792 (Call No.: pp. 87-88)
No. 13: Letter received by Commodore Thomas Pasley from Nessy Heywood, 22 June 1792 (Call No.: pp. 89-90)
No. 14: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from Peter Heywood, 20 November 1791 (Call No.: pp. 91-105)
No. 15: Letter received by Richard Betham from Peter Heywood, 20 June 1792 (Call No.: pp. 105-107)
Summary of two missing letters received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood and Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood (Call No.: p. 108)
No. 16: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from Peter Heywood, 23 June 1792 (Call No.: pp. 108-109)
No 17: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from Emma Bertie, 28 June 1792 (Call No.: pp. 109-110)
No. 18: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from J. M. Heywood, 29 June 1792 (Call No.: p. 111)
No. 19: Letter received by Peter Heywood from J. M. Heywood, 29 June 1792 (Call No.: pp. 111-112)
No. 20: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from Peter Heywood, 29 June 1792 (Call No.: pp. 112-114)
No. 21: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Mrs ELizabeth Heywood, 29 June 1792 (Call No.: pp. 114-117)
No. 22: Letter received by Peter Heywood from his sisters and brothers, Nessy, Mary, Eliza, Isabella, Jane, John and Edwin Heywood, 29 June 1792 (Call No.: pp. 118-124)
No. 23: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Commodore Thomas Pasley, 1 July 1792 (Call No.: p. 124)
No. 24: Letter received by Mary Heywood from Peter Heywood, 5 July 1792 (Call No.: pp. 125-127)
No. 25: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Commodore Thomas Pasley, 6 July 1792 (Call No.: pp. 127-128)
No. 26: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from J. M. Heywood, 8 July 1792 (Call No.: pp. 128-129)
No. 27: Letter received by Emma Bertie from Nessy Heywood, 9 July 1792 (Call No.: pp. 129-132)
No. 28: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 9 July 1792 (Call No.: pp. 133-137)
No. 29: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 12 July 1792 (Call No.: pp. 137-139)
No. 30: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from J. M. Heywood, 11 July 1792 (Call No.: p. 139)
No. 31: Letter received by the Heywood sisters from Peter Heywood, 12 July 1792 (Call No.: pp. 140-141)
No. 32: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from Peter Heywood, 12 July 1792 (Call No.: pp. 141-142)
No. 33: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Joseph Wood, 15 July 1792 (Call No.: p. 143)
No. 34: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Commodore Thomas Pasley, 15 July 1792 (Call No.: pp. 143-145)
No. 34 [sic]: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Commodore Thomas Pasley, 15 July 1792 (Call No.: p. 145)
No. 35: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood, 16 July 1792. Includes two watercolour vignettes: `The Destruction of H.M.S. Pandora. August the 29th. at Day break.'; `The surviving parts of the Crew of the unfortunate Pandora on Sandy Key - at Noon the same day.' (Call No.: pp. 145-147)
No. 36: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood, 17 July 1792 (Call No.: pp. 147-148)
No. 37: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Mary, Nessy and Eliza Heywood, 17 July 1792 (Call No.: pp. 148-150)
No. 38: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 18 July 1792 (Call No.: pp. 150-153)
No. 39: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood, 22 July 1792 (Call No.: pp. 153-154)
No. 40: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 22 July 1792 (Call No.: pp. 155-157)
No. 41: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood and Eliza Heywood from Peter Heywood, 24 July 1792 (Call No.: pp. 157-159)
No. 42: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood, 25 July 1792 (Call No.: p. 159)
No. 43: Letter received by Mary Heywood from Peter Heywood, 25 July 1792 (Call No.: pp. 160-161)
No. 44: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 31 July 1792 (Call No.: pp. 161-164)
No. 45: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Eliza Heywood, 31 July 1792 (Call No.: pp. 164-165)
No. 46: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from Peter Heywood, 31 July 1792 (Call No.: pp. 165-166)
No. 47: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood, 31 July 1792 (Call No.: pp. 167-168)
No. 48: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood, 3 August, 1792 (Call No.: pp. 168-169)
No. 49: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from Peter Heywood, 3 August 1792 (Call No.: pp.169-170)
No. 50: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood, 4 August 1792 (Call No.: pp. 170-171)
No. 51: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood, 9 August 1792 (Call No.: pp. 171-173)
No. 52: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from Peter Heywood, 9 August 1792 (Call No.: pp. 173-174)
No. 53: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 9 August 1792 (Call No.: pp. 174-176)
No. 54: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 13 August 1792 (Call No.: pp. 177-180)
No. 55: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from Peter Heywood, 15 August 1792 (Call No.: pp. 180-182)
No. 56: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood, 17 August 1792 (Call No.: pp. 183-184)
No. 57: Letter received by Peter Heywood from his uncle Colonel I. Holwell, 21 August 1792 (Call No.: pp. 187-188)
No. 59: Letter received by Mary Heywood from Peter Heywood, 22 August 1792 (Call No.: pp. 189-190)
No. 60: Letter received from Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood, 23 August 1792 (Call No.: pp. 190-191)
No. 61: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Commodore Thomas Pasley, 26 August 1792 (Call No.: pp. 192-193)
No. 62: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Dr Patrick Scott, 27 August 1792 (Call No.: pp. 193-194)
No. 63: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 31 August 1792 (Call No.: pp. 195-197)
No. 64: Letter received by Mary Heywood from Peter Heywood, 5 September 1792 (Call No.: pp. 197-198)
No. 65: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood, 6 September 1792 (Call No.: pp. 198-199)
No. 66: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Commodore Thomas Pasley, 6 September 1792 (Call No.: pp. 199-200)
No. 67: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Commodore Thomas Pasley, 6 September 1792 (Call No.: p. 201)
No. 68: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from Peter Heywood, 11 September 1792 (Call No.: pp. 202-203)
No. 69: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 17 September 1792 (Call No.: pp. 203-206)
No. 70: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Colonel I. Holwell, 12 September 1792 (Call No.: pp. 206-207)
Note re. 17-24 September 1792 (Call No.: pp. 207-208)
No. 71: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from James Heywood, 24 September 1792 (Call No.: p. 208)
No. 72: Letter received by James Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 29 September 1792 (Call No.: pp. 209-211)
No. 73: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from Emma Bertie, 18 September 1792 (Call No.: pp. 211-212)
No. 74: Letter received by Dr Patrick Scott from A. Graham, 18 September 1792 (Call No.: pp. 212-214)
No. 75: Letter received by Dr Patrick Scott from A. Graham, 19 September 1792 (Call No.: pp. 214-215)
No. 76: Letter received by Dr Patrick Scott from A. Graham, 20 September 1792 (Call No.: pp. 215-216)
No. 77: Letter received by Dr Patrick Scott from Peter Heywood, 20 September 1792 (Call No.: pp.216-218)
No. 78: Letter received by Dr Patrick Scott from Lieutenant J. L. Springer, 21 September 1792 (Call No.: pp. 219-220)
No. 79: Letter received by Dr Patrick Scott from J. Delafons, 23 September 1792 (Call No.: pp. 220-221)
No. 80: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood, 22 September 1792 (Call No.: pp. 221-224)
No. 81: Letter received by Dr Patrick Scott from A. Graham, 24 September 1792 (Call No.: p. 225)
Note re. Neesy Heywood (Call No.: p.226)
No. 82: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from Peter Heywood, 29 September 1792 (Call No.: pp. 226-228)
No. 83: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 3 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 229-230)
No. 84: Letter received by A. Graham from Nessy Heywood, 3 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 231-232)
No. 85: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 4 October 1792 (Call No.: p. 233)
No. 86: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood, 5 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 233-236)
No. 87: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 5 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 237-239)
No. 88: Letter received by Mary Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 6 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 240-241)
No. 89: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 6 October 1792 (Call No.: pp.241-243)
No. 90: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood, 9 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 243-245)
No. 91: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from James Heywood, 7 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 245-246)
No. 92: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 9 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 246-248)
No. 93: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood, 10 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 248-249)
No. 94: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Commodore Thomas Pasley, 10 October 1792 (Call No.: pp.250-251)
No. 95: Letter received by Lord Chatham from Nessy Heywood, 11 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 251-252)
No. 96: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 13 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 252-256)
No. 97: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood, 14 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 256-259)
No. 98: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 15 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 259-262)
No. 99: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 15 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 262-263)
No. 100: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood, 16 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 263-264)
No. 101: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from A. Graham and Nessy Heywood, 16 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 265-267)
No. 102: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from James Heywood, 17 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 267-268)
No. 103: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 18 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 268-270)
No. 104: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood, 19 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 270-271)
No. 105: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 20 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 271-273)
No. 106: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood, 21 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 273-274)
No. 107: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Commodore Thomas Pasley, 21 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 274-275)
No. 108: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 22 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 275-276)
No. 109: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Peter Heywood, 23 October 1792 (Call No.: p. 277)
No. 110: Letter received by Peter Heywood from Nessy Heywood, 24 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 278-279)
No. 111: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from Nessy Heywood and A. Graham, 26 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 279-280)
No. 112: Letter received by Francis Const from Nessy Heywood, 26 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 280-281)
No. 113: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Francis Const, 27 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 281-282)
No. 114: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from J. M. Heywood, 27 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 282-283)
No. 115: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from Commodore Thomas Pasley, 27 October 1792 (Call No.: p. 283)
No. 116: Letter received by Nessy Heywood from A. Graham and Peter Heywood, 27 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 283-284)
No. 117: Letter received by Mrs Elizabeth Heywood from Nessy Heywood, Maria Graham and A. Graham, 29 October 1792 (Call No.: pp. 284-286)
`Remarks on Evidence given at a Court-Martial held on board H.M.S. Duke in Portsmouth Harbour, upon Peter Heywood and others - sent to Ld Chatham.' (Call No.: pp. 287-296)
`The Defence of Peter Heywood after the trial held on him and others on board H.M.S. Duke in Portsmouth Harbour September 12th 13th 14th 15th 17th & 18th 1792.' Signed `Prisoner' (Call No.: pp. 297-308)
`Spoken by Mr Peter Heywood to Captain Montague after he had read him his Majesty's unconditional Pardon Octr 27th 1792.' (Call No.: p. 308)
Note re. death of Nessy Heywood on 25 September 1793, written by her sister Mary Heywood. (Call No.: p. 309)
Eulogies for Nessy Heywood, September 1793; verse, prose, etc, including `A Letter from a convict at Botany Bay to his Mother in London' by Samuel Peyton, 24 June 1788 (pp. 633-634) (Call No.: pp. 310-738)
Finding Aids
Read the transcription here: archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D35753/c04186.html
General note

This volume, bound in old half calf, rebacked, is one of five known versions, each differing slightly from the other.
A second version is held in the Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man. A copy of this version is held by the Mitchell Library at MLMSS 1768.
A third version is held in the Newberry Library, Chicago, USA.
Two other versions are in private collections. One of these, from the Angela and Stephen Walters collection, was offered for auction by Bonhams, London, on 20 March 1996. The buyer is unknown.
Peter Heywood makes reference to `... Nessy's little book...' in a letter to Captain Jeff Raigersfeld, 24 November 1808 (ML Ah 54/2).

Microfilm - CY 2809 (380 frames: MLMSS 5719, filed at Safe 1/127)
Digital order no:Album ID : 1336423
Signatures / Inscriptions

Inside front cover: `Mary Heywood.', probably in the hand of Mary Heywood; `- Aunt to Bessie Fleetwood Castle Lawn Douglas', possibly in another hand.
Creator/Author/Artist
Bertie, Emmma
Bligh, William, 1754-1817
Const, Francis, 1751-1839
Curwen, J. C. (John Christian), 1756-1828
Delafons, J.
Graham, A.
Graham, Maria, 1777-1793
Hallett, John
Heywood, Edwin Holwell, 1782-
Heywood, Eliza, 1770-
Heywood, Elizabeth
Heywood, Hester, 1768-1793
Heywood, Isabella, 1775-
Heywood, J. M.
Heywood, James, 1774-
Heywood, Jane, 1777-
Heywood, John, 1781-
Heywood, Peter, 1773-1831
Holwell, I.
Pasley, Thomas, Sir, 1734-1808
Scott, Patrick
Sprainger, J. L.
Stanhope, William Spencer
Wood, Joseph
Name
Chatham, John Pitt, Earl of, 1756-1835
Fleetwood, Bessie
Heywood, Henry, 1779-
Pandora (Frigate)
Subject
Bounty Mutiny, 1789.
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry--History, Naval--18th century.
Great Britain--History, Naval--18th century.
Isle of Man--Social life and customs--18th century.
Shipwrecks--Australia--History.
Trials (Mutiny)
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