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- [1801x1875]. (Creation)
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Holograph letters to or from, and other items relating to, [the Reverend] David Charles [David Charles I, Calvinistic Methodist minister, of Carmarthen] and members of his family. The correspondence includes letters from David Charles [I] from Aberystwyth, Bala, Bristol, Builth, Carmarthen, Hay, Llanidloes, Llandrindod, and London, to his son David Charles [II], Carmarthen, 1821-1827 and undated (13 as per address or by inference) (personal and family matters, the writer's travels, business affairs, religious reflections), [? George] Hodson, to be laid before the Directors [of the London Missionary Society], 1822 (the Society's rejection of Mr. Morgan's application to be allowed to serve as a missionary, a suggestion that the Society was prejudiced against Calvinistic Methodists, the financial efforts made by the C.M. movement on behalf of the Bible Society, the missionary cause, etc., the movement's independence of any English financial support) (unsigned draft or copy), and [ ], 1815 (enclosing a copy of a letter sent to Mr. Wilks outlining the [Calvinistic] Methodist attitude towards the proposed Auxiliary Missionary Society for South Wales) (unsigned copy); Eliza Charles (also, after her marriage, as Eliza [Davies]) [daughter of David Charles I], from Aberystwyth and Bala, to her brother David Charles [II], Carmarthen, 1822- 1830 and undated (6 as per address or by inference) (personal and family news, her father's preaching activities, religious reflections) (2 incomplete, 3 written on blank pages of the aforementioned letters from D. Charles I to D. Charles II); Mary Foulkes, Machynlleth, to [ ], 1812 (personal); W[illiam] Alers Hankey (treasurer of the London Missionary Society), from Aberystwith, to David Charles [I], Carmarthen, 1822 (assuring recipient that the Society had not rejected Mr. Morgan's application to become a missionary because he was a Calvinistic Methodist, their true reasons for doing so, missionary activity); H[ugh] Hughes, London, to his brother [-in-law] D[avid] Charles [II], 1836 (the publication of a volume of the sermons [of recipient's father]); Hugh Price, Carmarthen and Mumbles, to D[avid] R[oberts] Charles [? son of David Charles II], Liverpool, [18]61 (3) (personal, floods in Carmarthen, the American Civil War, a comment on [the Emperor] Napoleon [III], religious exhortations); [the Reverend] Henry Rees, Liverpool, to ?David Charles [II], 1845-?1847 (2) (personal, difficulties in arranging visits to South Wales, the Missionary Society, the writer's opinion that the [ Calvinistic] Methodists should concentrate their efforts on Wales rather than on the foreign mission field, the need to educate the children and young preachers); and [the Reverend] Ebenezer Richard, from Newport and Tregaron, to [David] Charles [I], 1826 (a message from the [C.M.] Association meeting at Llandeilofawr sympathising with recipient on his illness), David Charles [II], Carmarthen, 1823-1833 (2 + 1 by inference) (preaching engagements, the illness of recipient's father and messages of sympathy in connection therewith from [C.M.] Association meetings at Lampeter in 1828 and Brecon in 1833, the writer's indisposition in 1833), and the Reverend Tho[ma]s Evans and D[avid] Charles [II] jointly, Carmarthen, 1833 (returning hymn books with remarks thereon, the writer's health). The miscellaneous items include a bond entered into by David Charles [I], 1 January 1803, for the payment of a sum of five hundred pounds to Nathaniel Phillips of Haverfordwest, banker (endorsed with two notes whereby Nathaniel Phillips acknowledged receipt of the sum due in two instalments, 1807, 1813); probate, 19 February 1835, of the will of David Charles [I], 13 July 1826; and an imperfect copy of a memorial inscription to Sarah Charles, wife of David Charles [I], ob. 1817, and to Rice Rowland Charles, ob. 1801, aged 2.
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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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Preferred citation: NLW MS 12894E.
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- London Missionary Society -- Missions. (Subject)
- British and Foreign Bible Society (Subject)
- London Missionary Society (Subject)
- Calvinistic Methodist Association (1826 : Llandeilo, Wales) (Subject)
- Calvinistic Methodist Association (1828 : Lampeter, Wales) (Subject)
- Calvinistic Methodist Association (1833 : Brecon, Wales) (Subject)
- Charles, David, 1762-1834 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Charles, David, 1803-1880 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Napoleon, Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte III Emporer of France 1808 - 1873 (Subject)
- Richard, Ebenezer, 1781-1837 -- Health (Subject)
- Charles, David, 1762-1834 -- Health (Subject)
- Charles, Sarah, d. ?1817 -- Death and burial (Subject)
- Charles, David, 1762-1834 -- Will (Subject)
- Charles, Rice Rowland, d. ?1802 -- Death and burial (Subject)
- Charles, David, 1762-1834 (Subject)
- Charles, David, 1803-1880 (Subject)
- Hodson, George (Subject)
- Davies, Eliza (née Charles) (Subject)
- Foulks, Mary, Machynlleth (Subject)
- Hankey, William Alers (Subject)
- Hughes, Hugh, London (Subject)
- Price, Hugh, fl. 1860 (Subject)
- Charles, David Roberts (Subject)
- Rees, Henry, 1798-1869 (Subject)
- Richard, Ebenezer, 1781-1837 (Subject)
- Evans, Thomas, Rev., Carmarthen (Subject)
- Phillips, Nathaniel, banker (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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April 2010.
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- English
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Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971);