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Title
Date(s)
- 1788 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
28 ff. ; 205 x 135 mm.
Interleaved notebook, with soft leather covers and later cardboard covers.
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Maggs Bros Ltd; London; Purchase; January 2003; 0200301200.
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Scope and content
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).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Item: 1.1 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23900B). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 4284405. Date: 20030905. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23900B) : One loose item in volume, front pastedown damaged. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23900B). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 4284405. Date: 20050218. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Jenkins. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23900B) : Repaired front pastedown and hinged in loose item. Institution: WlAbNL.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
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Language and script notes
English.
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Title based on contents.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23900B.
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Access points
Subject access points
- Silver mines and mining -- Germany -- Goslar.
- Hamburg (Germany) -- Description and travel.
- Wolfenbüttel (Germany) -- Description and travel.
- Göttingen (Germany) -- Description and travel.
- Münden (Lower Saxony, Germany) -- Description and travel.
- Kassel (Germany) -- Description and travel.
- Weimar (Thuringia, Germany) -- Description and travel.
- Germany -- Description and travel
- Hannover (Germany) -- Description and travel
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
March 2012.
Language(s)
- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Geraint Phillips, and revised by Rhys Morgan Jones;