Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1824-1891 (Creation)
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Series
Extent and medium
28 volumes.
Context area
Name of creator
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Journals, 1824, 1827-1859, 1869-1891, of Lady Charlotte Guest (née Bertie, other married name Schreiber).
Summaries and short extracts from journals III-XVI were published in The Diaries of Lady Charlotte Guest, ed. by the Earl of Bessborough (1950), and from volumes XVI-XXXI in Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extracts from her Journal, 1853-91, ed. by the Earl of Bessborough (1952). Extracts from volumes XI-XIII relating to the translation of the Mabinogion were published in D. Rhys Phillips, Lady Charlotte Guest and the Mabinogion (Carmarthen, 1921). Volumes XIX-XXVII were published in Lady Charlotte Schreiber's Journals: Confidences of a Collector of Ceramics and Antiques, ed. by Montague J. Guest & Egan Mew, 2 vols (1911).
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Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged chronologically at NLW.
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Language of material
- English
- French
Script of material
Language and script notes
English, some French.
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Notes area
Note
Volumes I-II and IV-V were not included in the 1994 deposit.
Note
Title based on contents.