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- 1844-1876 / (Creation)
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Letters and papers of George Stephens, goaler and governor of the House of Correction of the county of Carmarthen. They include a notice of promotion to be one of the Inspectors of the Metropolitan Police Force, 29 April, 1844; an invitation, 14 August, 1847, under the signatures of magistrates of the county of Carmarthen, to discharge the duty of goaler till the Quarter Sessions; a certificate of good conduct in the Metropolitan Police Force, 1 September, 1847; a holograph letter, 4 November, 1847, from Charles Bishop, Llandovery, enclosing a copy of the order for the recipient's appointment as county gaoler and governor; eighteen holograph letters, 4-17 November, 1854, from visiting magistrates of Carmarthenshire and others, supporting his application for a similar post in the county of Middlesex; a printed statement of accounts, 21 January, 1870, between George Stephens, late treasurer, and the members and congregation of Zion Calvinistic Church, Carmarthen; a printed 'in memoriam' card of David Price Davies of Pumpsaint, 1874; and a holograph letter, 17 November [1876] from C. H. Spurgeon, Clapham.
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English
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 11126D
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- County Gaol and House of Correction (Carmarthen, Wales) (Subject)
- Metropolitan Police. (Subject)
- Zion Presbyterian Church (Carmarthen, Wales) -- Accounting (Subject)
- County Gaol and House of Correction (Carmarthen, Wales) -- Officials and employees (Subject)
- Stephens, George, Police Sergeant, 19th cent. -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Davies, David Price -- Death and burial (Subject)
- Bishop, Charles, Llandovery (Subject)
- Spurgeon, C. H. (Charles Haddon), 1834-1892. (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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January 2009.
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- English
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Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961); Genuki WWW site; A Collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the ... reign of ... William the Fourth ... (London, 1836);