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NLW MS 9177B.
Title
A Llanberis commonplace book,
Date(s)
- [1790x1850] / (Creation)
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An album or commonplace book originally kept at the New Inn, Llanberis. It contains a short sketch of the history of Llanberis, a note on John Closs, who died of exposure on Snowdon in 1805, with lines composed on the occasion by P[eter] B[ailey] W[illiams]; a 'Sonnet to Snowdon' by Miss Locke; odes to Snowdon, 1819; a 'Sketch of Snowdon for the benefit of sojourners at Llanberis' by Colonel Bell; a note on Evan Evans ('Ieuan Brydydd Hir') with an elegy by R. Williams of Vron near Mold, 1790; a sonnet by Kirke White; particulars of ashes carted, 1823-1827; and notes of visitors to the Inn, 1819.
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English.
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Formerly Hobley Griffith MS 27.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 9177B.
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vtls006105366
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- New Inn (Llanberis, Wales) (Subject)
- Closs, John, d. 1805 (Subject)
- Closs, John, d. 1805 -- Death and burial -- Poetry (Subject)
- Evans, Evan, 1731-1788 (Subject)
- Evans, Evan, 1731-1788 -- Death and burial -- Poetry (Subject)
- Williams, P. B. (Peter Bailey), 1763-1836 (Subject)
- White, Henry Kirke, 1785-1806. (Subject)
- Williams, R., Vron, Mold (Subject)
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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales