Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1854-1904 / (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
xix, 324 ff. (ff. 54 verso-265 paginated 1-412; ff. 261-4, 265-304 verso blank; several leaves torn out) ; 400 x 160 mm. Printed ledger, half-leather.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Label of H. White & Sons, Booksellers, &c., Carmarthen, inside front cover.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Mr Rowland Arch, great-grandson of John Jones; Pontrhydfendigaid; Purchase; 1993
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Account book of John Jones (b. 1815), Llwyn-gog, Pontrhydfendigaid, co. Cardigan, carpenter and stonemason, containing accounts and other memoranda, 1857-1904, mainly relating to building and maintenance work undertaken and including details of payments to craftsmen and labourers. Included are accounts relating to the construction of the English Wesleyan chapel, Aberystwyth, 1869-70 (ff. 109-17, 124 verso-5). The volume also includes diary entries, 1854-9, written in Welsh and comprising mainly a daily work record but also including references to family and local affairs (ff. 1-51); and other miscellaneous material. A letter, 1862, from the Reverend John Phillips, Normal College, Bangor, to Thomas Hopkins, Pentonville, found loose inside, has been tipped in at the end of the volume (f. 324).
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
Finding aids
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 23159E
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- St. Paul (Church : Aberystwyth, Wales) (Subject)
- Jones, John, b. 1815 -- Diaries (Subject)
- Phillips, John, 1810-1867 (Subject)
- Hopkins, Thomas, Pentonville (Subject)
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Description control area
Description identifier
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. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003);