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- [1830x1899] / (Creation)
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Bound in dark red morocco, with elaborate gilt and blind tooling.
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An album compiled by Richard Parry ('Gwalchmai'), Congregational minister, poet, and litterateur, of Llandudno, etc. It contains holograph letters from, amongst others, Thomas Dick, 1848; W. Williams ('Williams o'r Wern'), 1839; and Taliesin Williams, 1839; autographs, largely in the form of cut-out signatures of letters, of, amongst others, Richard Cobden; George Hadfield, politician; Daniel O'Connell; [Sir Thomas] Love [Duncombe] Jones Parry; Richard Llwyd ('Bard of Snowdon'); Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'); John Jones ('Talhaiarn'); John Williams ('Ab Ithel'); Samuel Roberts ('S. R.'); John Thomas ('Pencerdd Gwalia'); Augusta Hall, baroness Llanover ('Gwenynen Gwent'); Christmas Evans; J[ohn] Jones ('Tegid'); David Thomas ('Dafydd Ddu Eryri'); Brinley Richards, 1879; Joseph Hughes ('Carn Ingli'); and John Williams ('Ab Ithel'); verses in the hand of, and in most cases composed by, amongst others, Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'), 1851; David Griffith ('Clwydfardd'), 1874; E. Herber Evans, [18]77; Rowland Williams ('Hwfa Môn'), 1869; Richard Parry ('Gwalchmai'), ?1871; Richard Davies ('Mynyddog'), 1870; J[ohn] Thomas ('Siôn Wyn o Eifion'), 1836; William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'), 1870; Lewis Morris ('Llywelyn Ddu o Fôn'); David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion'), 1836; W. Cadwaladr Davies, [18]74; and T. Tudno Jones ('Tudno'), 1875-1894; the certificate, 1843, of the election of Richard Parry ('Gwalchmai') to membership of Cymdeithas Cymreigyddion y Fenni; a biographical note on, and a blazon of the arms of, Hwfa ap Cynddelw, head of the first of the fifteen tribes of North Wales; a pardon, bearing the signature of [Sir] R[obert] Peel, 1830; etc.
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Language of material
- English
- Welsh
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Welsh, English.
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Finding aids
The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part XX, 283.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 10993C.
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- Cymdeithas Cymreigyddion y Fenni (Subject)
- Gwalchmai, 1803-1897 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Hwfa ap Cynddelw (Subject)
- Dick, Thomas, 1774-1857. (Subject)
- Williams, William, 1781-1840 (Subject)
- Williams, Taliesin, 1787-1847 (Subject)
- Cobden, Richard, 1804-1865 (Subject)
- Hadfield, George, 1787-1879 (Subject)
- O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847 (Subject)
- Jones-Parry, Thomas Love Duncombe, Sir, 1832-1891 (Subject)
- Llwyd, Richard, 1752-1835 (Subject)
- Eben Fardd, 1802-1863 (Subject)
- Talhaiarn, 1810-1869 (Subject)
- Williams, John, 1811-1862 (Subject)
- Roberts, Samuel, 1800-1885 (Subject)
- Thomas, John, 1826-1913 (Subject)
- Llanover, Augusta Hall, 1802-1896 (Subject)
- Evans, Christmas, 1766-1838 (Subject)
- Jones, John, 1792-1852 (Subject)
- Thomas, David, 1759-1822 (Subject)
- Richards, Brinley, 1819-1885 (Subject)
- Hughes, Joseph, 1803-1863 (Subject)
- Griffith, David, 1800-1894 (Subject)
- Evans, E. Herber (Evan Herber), 1836-1896 (Subject)
- Hwfa Môn, 1823-1905 (Subject)
- Mynyddog, 1833-1877 (Subject)
- Wyn, Sion, 1786-1859 (Subject)
- Rees, William, 1802-1883 (Subject)
- Morris, Lewis, 1701-1765 (Subject)
- Wyn, Dewi, 1784-1841 (Subject)
- Jones, T. Tudno (Thomas Tudno), 1844-1895 (Subject)
- Peel, Robert, 1788-1850 (Subject)
- Davies, William Cadwaladr, 1849-1905 (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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November 2008.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961); Oxford Dictionary of National Biography on-line; Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940 (Llundain, 1953);