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Title
Date(s)
- 1828-1853 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
iv, 96 ff. (including interleaves; leaf torn out after f. 77) ; 180 x 110 mm.
Full leather, gilt-edged, with gold tooling and fillet and brass clasp. 'Cofrestr haelionus anrhegwyr Eglwys Dewi Sant yn Lerpwl. Trwy gyfrwng yr enwog foneddiges Angharad Llwyd ofyddes wrth fraint a defawd beirdd Ynys Brydain' in gold on front cover.
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Alex Fotheringham; East Chesterhope, Hexham, Northumberland; Purchase; 1996
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A volume issued, 1828, to the antiqury Angharad Llwyd, Tyn-y-rhyl, Flintshire, for the collection of subscriptions towards St David's Welsh Church, Liverpool, but utilised by her as a commonplace and autograph book. Verse and prose entries, 1830-1853, mostly of a religious nature, include autograph poetry by John Jones (Tegid), Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), and Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall), and entries by Sir John Bernard Bosanquet, Lady Charlotte Guest, Augusta Hall, Lady Llanover, Henry Hart Milman, David Pennant, William Owen[-Pughe], Thomas Raffles, Henry Raikes, John Bird Sumner, and Frances Wrangham. Also included is a letter of address, 1828, to Angharad Llwyd from the Rev. Robert Davies, perpetual curate of St David's Church (f. iii).
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
The contents of NLW MSS 22853-23691 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003).
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Digital version available http://hdl.handle.net/10107/6056699 (April 2023)
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Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23524B.
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Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- St. David's Church (Liverpool, England) (Subject)
- Jones, John, 1792-1852 (Subject)
- Price, Thomas, 1787-1848 (Subject)
- Procter, Bryan Waller 1787-1874. (Subject)
- Bosanquet, John Bernard, 1773-1847 (Subject)
- Llanover, Augusta Hall, 1802-1896 (Subject)
- Milman, Henry Hart, 1791-1868. (Subject)
- Pennant, David, 1763-1841 (Subject)
- Pughe, W. Owen (William Owen), 1759-1835 (Subject)
- Raffles, Thomas, 1788-1863. (Subject)
- Raikes, Henry, 1782-1854. (Subject)
- Sumner, John Bird, 1780-1862 (Subject)
- Wrangham, Francis, 1769-1842. (Subject)
- Davies, Robert, Rev. (Subject)
- Guest, Charlotte, Lady, 1812-1895 (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
May 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);