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- [1879x1909] / Robert Oliver Rees and others. (Creation)
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Papers relating to Mary Jones, Llanfihangel y Pennant, Merionethshire and her journey on foot to Bala in 1800 to obtain a Welsh Bible from Thomas Charles, who was afterwards one of the founders of the British and Foreign Bible Society. They include the original manuscript and draft copies of Robert Oliver Rees: Mary Jones, y Gymraes fechan heb yr un Beibl, a sefydliad y Feibl Gymdeithas ... (Dolgellau, 1879), press cuttings containing reviews and correspondence relating to the work and to the truth of the story, a short biographical note on Mary Jones, and letters, including two from D. E. Jenkins, Denbigh to Edward Griffith, 1909.
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Welsh, English.
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The descriptions are also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume I (Aberystwyth, 1943).
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Formerly known as Edward Griffith 3.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 2693C.
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- British and Foreign Bible Society (Subject)
- Jones, Mary, 1784-1864 (Subject)
- Charles, Thomas, 1755-1814 (Subject)
- Griffith, Edward 1832-1918 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Rees, Robert Oliver, 1819-1881 (Subject)
- Jenkins, D. E. (David Erwyd), 1864-1937 (Subject)