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Seventy-nine holograph letters and imperfect letters, 1853-1873 and undated, written by Robert Griffith Jones, successively curate of Llanarmon-yn-Iâl and Rhuddlan and vicar of Llanarmon-yn-Iâl. The letters, written from St. Bees College [Cumberland], Llanarmon-yn-Iâl, Rhuddlan, etc., are addressed largely to his cousin Evan Jones, Port-madoc, but there are a few to his cousins Catherine (Cate) Jones and Owen Evan Jones. Among the subjects discussed are personal and family matters; the writer's ordination, and his curacy at Llanarmon-yn-Iâl; purchases of books; the printing business of Evan Jones; the writer's parochial duties; a request for jars of Trefriw water; the recovery of Catherine Jones and Owen Evan Jones from typhoid fever; a welcome to the writer at Bodrhyddan; etc.
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Welsh, English.
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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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Formerly known as J. T. Evans 34.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 12023B.
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- Bodrhyddan Estate (Wales) (Subject)
- Jones, Robert Griffith, Rev. -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Jones, Evan, 1830-1918 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Jones, Evan, 1830-1918 (Subject)
- Jones, Catherine, b. 1824 -- Health (Subject)
- Jones, Owen Evan, 1834-1887 -- Health (Subject)
- Jones, Robert Griffith, Rev. (Subject)
- Jones, Evan, 1830-1918 (Subject)
- Jones, Catherine, b. 1824 (Subject)
- Jones, Owen Evan, 1834-1887 (Subject)