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- 1880-1917 (Creation)
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494 pp.
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Journal, 1880-1917, of the Rev. William Rees, minister of the Independent Church ['Yr Hen Gapel'] in the village of Llechryd, co. Cardigan, 1864-1880, and of Tabernacle Church in the same village, 1880-19 [ ]. The latter church had been established and a new chapel built by the said William Rees and his followers in 1880, after they had seceded from the Independent Church as a result of friction arising from conflicting views on a number of topics. The contents of the volume consist basically of an account of the writer's life and of the history of the new church from 1880 onwards, but the narrative is interspersed with lengthy passages and entire sections devoted to religious and moral declamation and mysticism. The writer sometimes expresses his thoughts in verse. Biographical data relating to the writer's life prior to 1880 are found on pp. 437 et seq. Inset are a holograph letter from W. A. Williams (honorary secretary of the New Church Missionary Society), Swansea, to [the Rev. William] Rees, 1914 (greetings from the Society's annual assembly), and a holograph letter from John Thomas, Llandilo, also by inference to William Rees, 1911 (an invitation to preach in Horeb Chapel, Llandilo).
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- English
- Welsh
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English, Welsh.
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The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).
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See E. D. Jones: 'William Rees, Llechryd (1839-1919), a Welsh Swedenborgian', The National Library of Wales Journal, vol. XV, pp. 234-5.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 12863F.
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- Tabernacle (Church : Llechryd, Wales) (Subject)
- Church Missionary Society. (Subject)
- Horeb (Church : Llandeilo, Wales) (Subject)
- Rees, William, 1839-1919 -- Diaries (Subject)
- Williams, W.A. (Subject)
- Thomas, John, Llandeilo (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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- English
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The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS.