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Title
Date(s)
- 1948 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
vi, 311 ff. (foliated 1-309; versos mostly blank) ; 250 x 200 mm.
Half leather.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
'Copied from a typescript of the original lent by Commander C. L. Evan-Thomas, Pencerrig' (f. vi).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
NLW; 1948.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A typed transcript, 1948, of the memoirs and journal of Thomas Jones, Pencerrig, recounting his life in London, France and especially Italy during the second half of the eighteenth century. It was copied from another typescript (then owned by C. L. Evan-Thomas) of the original manuscript (now NLW MS 23812D).
The volume broadly covers the period from the 1760s to December 1783, with a final entry by Jones at Pencerrig, November 1798 (ff. 303-304). The main text is typed on the rectos only, with Jones' original notes reproduced on the facing versos. Facsimile copies of a sketch of Mt Vesuvius and a plan of Jones’ lodgings in Naples in 1780, apparently redrafted by the creator of the initial typescript, have been inserted after ff. 168 and 201.
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Accruals
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Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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Notes area
Note
Original title.
Note
The typescript appears to have been created at NLW (along with the identical copies NLW Misc. Vol. 288 and XND 497 J79), the title page (f. v) being consistent with those of the National Library press of the period.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 15169C.
Alternative identifier(s)
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Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Pencerrig Estate (Radnorshire, Wales) (Subject)
- Jones, Thomas, 1742-1803 -- Diaries. (Subject)
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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
May 2006.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Rhys Morgan Jones.