The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume I (Aberystwyth, 1943).
Title based on contents of fonds.
Archdeacon David Richard Thomas (1833-1916), antiquary, historian and author, was born in Llanfechain, Montgomeryshire. He was the author of several works, including A History of the Diocese of St Asaph, of which a second edition, in three volumes, appeared in 1908-1913.
Published
A collection comprising papers, notebooks and letters of David Richard Thomas.
Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 1178-1205, 1215B, 1221A.
From the library of Archdeacon David Richard Thomas.
This description was compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS.
For other manuscripts of D. R. Thomas see NLW, St. Asaph Diocesan Records SA/DR/1-68; NLW, John Fisher Manuscripts 354-370; and NLW MSS 15417D, 24127C.
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The descriptions are also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume I (Aberystwyth, 1943).
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 1.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1178D
Published
Notes on Welsh history, with a genealogical table.
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 2.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1179E
Published
The original manscript of the first edition (London, 1874) of D. R. Thomas, A History of the Diocese of St Asaph.
See also NLW MS 1205C.
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 3.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1180E
Published
The original manuscript of D. R. Thomas: Archaeologia Cambrensis, An Alphabetical Index to the first four series, 1846-1884 (London, 1892).
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 4.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1181E
Published
The arms, drawn and coloured by hand, of the nobility and gentry of Brecknockshire, compiled by Theophilus Jones.
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 5.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1182B
Published
An indexed armorial compiled by Thomas, containing the arms, coloured by hand in many instances, of a number of North Wales families and a few from the Border counties and South Wales, together with a few bookplates.
See also NLW MS 1185A.
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 6.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1183C
Published
North Wales pedigrees copied by Thomas, together with recipes, poems, etc.
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 7.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1184B
Published
A translation, written on dated paper made at Afonwen, of the first seven chapters of Joseph Warder: The True Amazons. A treatise on bees (London, 1712).
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 8.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1185A
Published
An armorial drawn and compiled by Thomas, mainly of North Wales families.
See also NLW MS 1182.
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 9-12.
Preferred citation: NLW MSS 1186-1189B
Published
Four notebooks containing 'collectanea' of Thomas relating to the diocese of St Asaph, the Church and Nonconformity in Wales, archaeology, pedigrees, poetry, place names, autograph signatures, etc.
See also NLW MSS 1190A, 1191B, 1192A, 1193-1196B
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 13.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1190A
Published
A notebook containing 'collectanea' of Thomas relating to the diocese of St Asaph, the Church and Nonconformity in Wales, archaeology, pedigrees, poetry, place names, autograph signatures, etc.
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 14.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1191B
Published
A notebook containing 'collectanea' of Thomas relating to the diocese of St Asaph, the Church and Nonconformity in Wales, archaeology, pedigrees, poetry, place names, autograph signatures, etc.
See also NLW MSS 1186-1189B, 1190A, 1192A, 1193-1196B
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 15.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1192A
Published
A notebook containing 'collectanea' of Thomas relating to the diocese of St Asaph, the Church and Nonconformity in Wales, archaeology, pedigrees, poetry, place names, autograph signatures, etc.
See also NLW MSS 1186-1189B, 1190A, 1191B, 1193-1196B
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 16-19.
Preferred citation: NLW MSS 1193-1196B
Published
Four notebooks containing 'collectanea' of Thomas relating to the diocese of St Asaph, the Church and Nonconformity in Wales, archaeology, pedigrees, poetry, place names, autograph signatures, etc.
See also NLW MSS 1186-1189B, 1190A, 1191B, 1192A
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 20.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1197A
Published
A list by Thomas of manuscripts at Porkington (i.e. Brogyntyn).
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 21.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1198B
Published
An interleaved copy, with manuscript notes by Thomas, of Edward Owen, A List of those who did Homage and Fealty to the First English Prince of Wales, in A. D. 1301 (privately printed, 1901).
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 22.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1199A
Published
An interleaved copy, with author corrections and reviews, of David Richard Thomas: Y Ffyrdd yng Nghrist, neu Athrawiaeth a Chymdeithas yr Eglwys ... (Carmarthen, 1873).
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 23.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1200C
Published
Autograph letters and fragments of letters from a variety of correspondents, many of them dealing with affairs in the dioceses of Bangor and St Asaph.
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 24.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1201D
Published
Autograph letters from a large number of people to Thomas and others, mainly relating to archaeology, Welsh history, literature and ecclesiastical affairs. The correspondents include B. Beedham, William Buckland, W. Boyd Dawkins, Walter Davies ('Gwallter Mechain'), J. P. Earwaker, D. Silvan Evans, R. W. Eyton, E. A. Freeman, Margaret Gatty, Reginald Heber, Felicia Hemans, H. Longueville Jones, John Keble, Sir Theodore Martin, Sydney (Lady) Morgan, Lord Mostyn, Samuel Rogers, W. F. Skene, Sir Arthur Sullivan, John Williams ('Ab Ithel'), Morris Williams ('Nicander') and Robert Williams (Rhydycroesau); an English poem entitled 'The Sixth Centenary of Dante's Beatrice 1890' by T. Tudno Jones; and a number of 'cut-out' autographs.
See also NLW MS 1202.
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 25.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1202D
Published
Autograph letters, mainly relating to English and Welsh literature and scholarship, the correspondents including John Blackwell ('Alun'), Henry Bradshaw, Lady Eleanor Butler, Sir John Hanmer, A. Hayward, W. Walsham How, Arthur James Johnes, John Jones ('Idrisyn'), W. Basil Jones, R. Harries Jones, Benjamin Hall Kennedy, Max Muller, Alfred Ollivant, Sir John Rhys, Thomas Rowland (author of A Grammar of the Welsh Language), A. H. Sayce, T. Vowler Short, Connop Thirlwall, T. F. Tout and Albert Way; with a number of 'cut-out' autographs.
See also NLW MS 1201.
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 26.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1203D
Published
The first sixteen pages (i.e. 'Trefn y Weddi Foreol') of Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin. Dan olygiaeth ... E. A. W. Vaughan Williams, with a few corrections in the hand of Thomas.
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 27.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1204B
Published
A copy, with a few manuscript corrections in the hand of Thomas, of the 'Index' to 'Llyfr Coch Asaph', printed in Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1868.
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 28.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1205C
Published
A copy of pp. 1-268 of the first (1874) edition of David Richard Thomas, A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph ... (London & St Asaph, 1874), with a few corrections by the author.
See also NLW MS 1179E.
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 29.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1215B
Published
A copy of W. K. R. Bedford: The Blazon of Episcopy (London, 1858), with manuscript corrections and additions by the author and a supplement to the work by John Woodward.
See also NLW MS 1205C.
Formerly known as D. R. Thomas 30.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 1221A
Published
Sketches by Thomas of ecclesiastical and domestic buildings, etc.
See also NLW MS 1205C.