Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1897-1968 / (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
177 ff. (many blank leaves) ; 330 x 145 mm. Cloth and marbled paper, rebacked at NLW.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Delia Anne Jenkins; Llanrhystud; Donation; 1984
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Farming account book originally belonging to David Evans of Ayngstree, Clifton-on-Teme, Worcestershire, who seems to have moved there from the Llandysul area of Cardiganshire. The volume comprises accounts, 1897-1915, of sales of farming produce and of wages and allowances to servants and labourers (ff. 1-31, 148 verso-67 verso, 173 verso-7); a few veterinary, household and culinary recipes (ff. 2, 16, 30 recto-verso, 31 verso-2); and family and other memoranda. There are also farming accounts and memoranda, 1943-1968, probably from the Llandysul area (ff. 33 verso-41 verso, 144-6 verso, 172-4).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions noted on the 'Modern papers - data protection' form issued with their readers' tickets.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
The contents of NLW MSS 21701-22852 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 8 (Aberystwyth, 1999).
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 22033D.
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
GEAC system control number
Access points
Subject access points
- Traditional medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
- Home economics
- Traditional veterinary medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
- Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
- Veterinary medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
- Domestics -- England -- Worcestershire -- Salaries, etc.
- Agricultural laborers -- England -- Worcestershire -- Salaries, etc.
Place access points
Name access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH.
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Language(s)
- English