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A journal of a tour of Holland, Germany and France undertaken between 16 July and 17 November 1837. The tour began at Rotterdam and included visits to Scheveringen, Katwig [Katwijk], La Haye [The Hague], Leyden [Leiden], Haarlem, Amsterdam, Broek, Utrecht, Arnheim [Arnhem], Cleves, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Bonn, Andernach, Coblenz [Koblenz], St Goar, Bingen, Rhudesheim [Rudesheim], Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Francfurt [Frankfurt], Fulda, Eisenach, Gotha, Weimar, Leipsig [Leipzig], Meissen, Dresden, Chemnitz, Reichenbach, Bayreuth, Nuremberg [Nurnberg], Ratisbonne [Ratisbon], Landshut, Munchen (Munich), Augsbourg [Augsburg], Ulm, Stutgard [Stutgart], Carlsruhe [Karlsruhe], Baden Baden, Strasbourg, Sarrebourg, Nancy, St Desier, Rheims, Château Thierry and Paris. Among the persons mentioned in the text are Lord and Lady Cawdor, Lord Emlyn and Lady Caroline. At the end of the volume are a few pencil illustrations and an index of places (p. 267).

Notes by David Pennant on Swedish mines, with an outline of a proposed tour to Denmark, Germany, and Sweden, 1793, and particulars of lead, lead ore, copper, and brass 'sent from the Port of Chester both Foreign and Coastwise in the year ending January 5, 1792'.

A folio volume lettered on the spine 'Pennant's Tour on the Continent . . . 1764', and containing an account of a tour in France, Savoy, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, and the Netherlands, undertaken by Thomas Pennant, February - August 1765, followed by a table of the 'Itinerary' and an index. The title-page is inscribed 'Tour on the Continent by Thomas Pennant, Esqr.', and, like the spine, bears the date 1764, although the actual tour was undertaken in 1765. An engraved portrait (inlaid) of Thomas Pennant (published post 1793) serves as frontispiece. The volume, as in the case of the preceding and following manuscripts, NLW MSS 12706E and 12708E, may have been transcribed by Thomas Pennant's secretary - copyist, Thomas Jones. Subsequent to its acquisition by the National Library of Wales in 1938, the text of the present work was edited and published, with an introduction and foot-notes, as vol. 132 of the publications of the Ray Society [G[avin] R[ylands] de Beer (ed.): Tour on the Continent 1765, by Thomas Pennant, Esqr. (London, 1948)]. In his introduction the editor states, 'It is clear that the body of the text rests on daily notes made by Pennant during the actual course of his tour', and adds that 'Pennant went over his text afterwards, for many of the elaborations of his narrative refer to books published, or events which occurred, subsequently to 1765'. References, such as those to Voltaire in 1768 (p. 184), to the reported discontinuance of the custom of producing the album or visitors' book at the Carthusian monastery of La Grande Chartreuse 'a few years after the time I was there' (p. 127), and to 'the late subversion of all things, wrong as well as right, in the Kingdom of France', and its effects on the monastery of La Grande Chartreuse (pp. 128- 9), are obviously later insertions. So, too, would appear to be the references to works by M. Bourrit (pp. 175, 178) [probably Marc Théodore Bourrit: A Relation of a Journey to the Glaciers in the Dutchy of Savoy. Translated from the French by Charles and Frederick Davy (Norwich, 1775)], and by the Reverend Mr. Coxe (p. 193) [William Coxe, author of Sketches of the Natural, Civil, and Political State of Swisserland (London, 1779), and Travels in Switzerland (London, 1789)].

Journals by D. Morgan Lewis of visits to Germany and Switzerland [1895] (with memoranda of disbursements), Scotland, 1899, and Neuchatel, Christmas, 1905 - January, 1906.

Diaries of Mary Caroline Evans Williams of Bryntirion Hall, Rhaeadr, Radnorshire, 1861-1906, and of her daughter, Elizabeth Alice Evans Williams, later E. A. Lewis Lloyd, 1889-1903. Most of the entries are brief, apart from those detailing vacations in Germany, 1861-1862, and Belguim, 1897 and 1906.

Journal of Maria Elizabeth Thomas, describing a tour in Holland, Germany, Bohemia, and Belgium, 1820s, including a list of places visited (ff. 81-82) and a list of hotels (f. 87 recto-verso), with typescript satirical verses addressed to 'O.B.J.' pasted inside the back cover.

A short account by Margaret Ellen James of a tour in Germany, 1869.

A volume of mounted cuttings from The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, 31 August - 28 December, 1861, together with copious manuscript additions and corrections, containing a 'Diary of my second Continental Tour', undertaken by D. J. E. from B[ristol] between 9 June and 4 August, 1860. The tour comprised parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Journal, 29 March 1841-23 June 1844, of Lady Charlotte Guest, at Dowlais, London and Sully, with tours in Belgium and Germany.
Papers loose inside the volume include engraved views of Wesel, [Germany]; a poster, 1830, relating to the 'Swing riots' in Northamptonshire, sent to her stepfather, Rev. Peter W. Pegus; and notes and rough sketches of architectural details, a hand mangle and a domestic iron (10 ff.).

Journal of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, November 1881-October 1882, including tours in Belgium, Holland, Germany; also Canford (pp. 1-23); together with records of purchases, September-October 1882 (pp. 1-6).

Journal of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, September 1879-November 1881, including tours in Holland, Germany, Belgium, Sweden and France; also Canford, London and Margam (pp.1-106); together with records of purchases, September-October 1879, September-November 1880, September-November 1881 (pp. 1-42 at end of volume, inverted text).

A journal of a tour in Germany and to Vienna and Prague undertaken by John Thomas, October 1851-February 1852, in order to advance his career.
Centred mainly upon Vienna, it includes an account of his first concert abroad, February 1852, as well as a critique of concerts attended by him. Leaves found loose inside the volume have been filed seperately (MS 23392iiB).

Photographs taken during Lloyd George's visit to Germany in 1936.

'Extract out of Mr. Serce's [?Sass's] Journall the Govr to Sr Rowland Wynne [?fourth baronet, of Nostell, Yorkshire, 1706-65, descended from a cadet of Gwydir] with relation to his Tour of Germany' [?circa 1726-9].

Transcripts of articles by Gareth Vaughan Jones including 'The world in 1931: a retrospect of the banking cris', published in the Western Mail, 21 December 1931, and others on Germany and Russia.

Journal, July-October 1788, of Thomas Ellis Owen, then a student at Christ Church, Oxford, later rector of Llandyfrydog, Anglesey, describing a tour of Germany, from London to Weimar.
The journal includes descriptions of Hamburg (ff. 2-3), Hanover (ff. 4 verso-6), Wolfenbüttel (8 recto-verso), the silver mines at Goslar (ff. 9 verso-11 verso), Göttingen (ff. 13-14), Münden (ff. 14-15), Cassel (ff. 15-19), and Weimar and its environs (ff. 21-28). The volume includes an anecdote relating to Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (ff. 18-19), and an account of a conversation with Goethe. (ff. 27 verso-28 verso).

A journal of a tour in Germany and Russia, 22 September 1852-13 April 1853, undertaken by John Thomas, including accounts of concerts given by him in St Petersburg, 1852-1853, and Moscow, 1853.