Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1811-1830 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
ii, 90 ff. ; 195 x 155 mm.
Guarded and filed.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Mr Stephen Davies; Cardigan; Donation; 1993
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A volume compiled, 1811-1830, by Thomas Llewellyn of the parishes of Cardigan and Ferwig, Cardiganshire, chiefly containing arithmetical exercises but also miscellaneous notes and memoranda in English and Welsh, perhaps partly composed by him and partly derived from printed sources. These include a bidding letter for the marriage of Mary Owen and John Williams, both of the parish of St Dogmaels, Cardiganshire, 1816; draft documents relating to property in Cardigan and Ferwig; love letters and verse in English, including a number of Valentine rhymes; prognostications in Welsh and English on the weather and on lucky and unlucky days, together with astrological notes; two apparently unpublished ballads in Welsh, one of them, perhaps by Thomas Llewellyn, recounting a case of alleged slander by Sara Evans, a Methodist, against the Rev. John Herring (1789-1832), Baptist minister at Cardigan; and a transcript of the title-page of The [Supposititious] Works of Aristotle (Arbroath, 1801) (not recorded in the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
- Welsh
Script of material
Language and script notes
English, Welsh.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Leaves cut out after ff. 3, 69.
Finding aids
The description is also available, together with a detailed list of contents, in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003).
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23135B
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Owen, Mary, of St Dogmaels -- Marriage (Subject)
- Williams, John, of St Dogmaels -- Marriage (Subject)
- Evans, Sara, of Cardigan (Subject)
- Herring, John, 1789-1832. (Subject)
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Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
February 2009.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS.