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- 1871-1909. (Creation)
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417 ff. (foliated 1-414 and organised as 3 folders, 3 bundles).
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Over three hundred and twenty letters and cards, 1871-1909, from Whitley Stokes to John Rhŷs (ff. 1-364). Also included are four letters to John Rhŷs, [1875x1876], from William Stokes (ff. 365-368); three letters, 1875, 1893, and undated, from Margaret Stokes (ff. 369-372); a copy of The Irish passages in the Stowe Missal (Calcutta, 1881), edited by Whitley Stokes (ff. 373-386), together with Charles Plummer's article, 'Notes on the Stowe Missal' (1885) (ff. 387-390), and three letters, 1883, addressed to Charles Plummer from Whitley Stokes (ff. 391-395).
The letters and cards from Whitley Stokes to John Rhŷs have been separated and arranged into 2 folders and 3 bundles. Folder A1/3/5(i) comprises letters dated between July 1871 and August 1894 (foliated 1-87); folder A1/3/5(ii) comprises letters dated between September 1895 and January 1909, and undated (foliated 88-151); bundle A1/3/5(iii) comprises cards dated between September 1874 and October 1887 (foliated 152-215); bundle A1/3/5(iv) comprises cards dated between November 1887 and November 1895 (foliated 216-284); and bundle A1/3/5(v) comprises cards dated between November 1895 and January 1909 (foliated 285-364). The rest of the material is placed in folder A1/3/5(vi) and foliated 365-414.
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Letters and cards have been separated due to their physical nature; items within each sequence are arranged chronologically. Letters from William Stokes and Margaret Stokes are located at the end of the sequence.
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Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.
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Digital version available http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4650232 (April 2017)
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The contents of the folders and bundles were foliated in August 2015 prior to be digitised.
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An unsigned note dated 18 May 1876 (now folio 29a) was transferred from A1/1/7 in October 2015 following identification as being the hand of Whitley Stokes by Professor Thomas Charles-Edwards, Oxford.
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Preferred citation: A1/3/5.
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- Stokes, William, 1804-1878. (Subject)
- Stokes, Margaret, 1832-1900. (Subject)
- Plummer, Charles, 1851-1927. (Subject)
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