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Title
Date(s)
- 1691-1909 (Creation)
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58 ff.
Guarded and filed.
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Archival history
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Charles Higham; SPCK, London; Purchase; between 1982 and 1987
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Scope and content
Letters, 1691-1909, of miscellaneous provenance, to and from bishops, mostly of Welsh dioceses, and other dignitaries relating mainly to social, personal and church matters. Among the correspondents are John Randolph, bishop of Bangor (1) [c. 1807]; Edward Copleston (1) 1844, Joshua Pritchard Hughes (1) 1909, Richard Lewis (1) 1901, Alfred Ollivant (4) 1849-1858, and John Shipley (1) 1769, bishops of Llandaf; John Owen (3) 1897-1899, and Connop Thirlwall (7) 1845-1871, bishops of St Davids; Edmund Gibson, bishop of London (2) 1731; Samuel Butler, headmaster of Shrewsbury School, later bishop of Lichfield (2) 1834; and Cardinal Herbert Vaughan, archbishop of Westminster (3) 1886-1893. Also included is a letter, 1790, from Selina Hastings, countess of Huntingdon.
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Language and script notes
English.
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Finding aids
The contents of NLW MSS 21701-22852 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 8 (Aberystwyth, 1999).
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Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 21804E.
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Name access points
- Church in Wales (Subject)
- Copleston, Edward, 1776-1849 (Subject)
- Davey, William Harrison, fl. 1870 (Subject)
- Ford, John, Bristol (Subject)
- Gibson, Edmund, 1669-1748 (Subject)
- Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, Countess of, 1707-1791 (Subject)
- Hughes, Joshua Pritchard, 1847-1938 (Subject)
- Lewis, Richard, Bishop of Llandaf (Subject)
- Ollivant, Alfred, 1798-1882 (Subject)
- Owen, John, 1854-1926 (Subject)
- Randolph, John, 1749-1813 (Subject)
- Shipley, Jonathan, 1714-1788 (Subject)
- Thirlwall, Connop, 1797-1875 (Subject)
- Butler, Samuel, 1774-1839 (Subject)
- Vaughan, Herbert, 1832-1903 (Subject)
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This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH.
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Language(s)
- English