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- 1848 (Creation)
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66 ff. (blank from f. 26 verso) ; 200 x 160 mm.
Contemporary quarter leather and marbled paper over boards.
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Ken Spelman Books Ltd; York; Purchase; November 2012; 006339734.
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Journal of a tour of North Wales and the North of England, 11 July-8 August 1848, by the sisters E[lizabeth] and Jane Weston of Brixworth, Northamptonshire, and their nephew R[obert] Henry Hewitt of Dodford, Northamptonshire (ff. 1-22 verso). The volume is mostly in the hand of Elizabeth, except for a single entry by Henry (ff. 16 verso-17 verso) and possibly Jane (ff. 4 verso-5).
The Welsh itinerary included Conwy (ff. 1-2), Caernarfon (ff. 4-8), [Llan] Ffestiniog (ff. 9-12 verso), Llanberis (ff. 13-14 verso) and Caernarfon (ff. 14 verso-15). The group's excursions included visits to Anglesey (f. 2 verso), Llanddwyn Island (ff. 5-6), a Nantlle slate quarry (ff. 6 verso-7 verso), and Blaenau Ffestiniog (ff. 11-12) as well as to the various castles (ff. 1 verso-2, 2 verso, 5, 14 verso), waterfalls (ff. 9-10, 12) and other sights. In Llanberis they visited the grave of the Rev. Henry Wellington Starr of Northampton, who died on Snowdon in 1846 (f. 14). They subsequently went by ship to Liverpool (ff. 15-16 verso), and by train to Scarborough (ff. 16 verso-21), finally returning, via York (ff. 21-22), home to Northamptonshire. Items loose within the volume have been tipped in; these comprise a transcript, by Elizabeth Weston, of the inscription on the gravestone of the Rev. Starr (f. 24), a printed obituary relating to Daventry, 1863 (f. 25), and a printed hymn, 1864 (f. 26).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Item: 1.1 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 24034B). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 6339734. Date: 20130416. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: I. B. James. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 24034B) : Tip in pages 24, 25 and 26 and reback volume. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 24034B). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 6339734. Date: 20130913. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: G. Edwards. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 24034B) : Cleaned, repaired, reattached pages and rebacked volume. Institution: WlAbNL.
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- English
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English.
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Spine worn.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 24034B.
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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January 2013.
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- English
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Description compiled by Rhys Morgan Jones.