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A journal of a return tour made from London in 1787 to the West of England, Chepstow, Tintern Abbey, Monmouth, Hereford, Birmingham, Warwick, Stratford-upon-Avon, Banbury, Amersham, etc.

A volume of mounted cuttings from The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, 31 August - 28 December, 1861, together with copious manuscript additions and corrections, containing a 'Diary of my second Continental Tour', undertaken by D. J. E. from B[ristol] between 9 June and 4 August, 1860. The tour comprised parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

A journal of a tour made in 1790 of the North of England, including the Lake District. At the end of the volume are particulars of disbursements and of intermediate distances, etc. The volume is in the same hand as NLW MSS 11492-11493B.

Journal of a visit to the Goodwick and Fishguard neighbourhood in July 1835, illustrated with pencil and water-colour sketches. English. Leather back. Donated by Mrs Dorothy Harris, Lampeter, January 1966.

A manuscript journal, 20 December 1863-10 February 1864 (watermarks 1843, 1844), of a voyage by John Griffith, [of Bangor, Caernarvonshire,] from Gravesend to New Zealand on board the sailing ship The Indian Empire, describing the crew and passengers, the accommodation and rations and daily life on board.
The volume consists of sheets of lined paper, folded in half and stab-stitched together using tarred twine; the text is written lengthways down the page. Griffith describes the 'Dead Horse' ceremony, marking one month at sea (pp. 56-61), the publication, by him, of the first issue of the 'Atlantic Telegraph', a newspaper for the passengers and crew (pp. 62-63, 65), and his twenty-first birthday on the 5 February 1864 (pp. 64, 72); the volume also includes a plan of the cabin in which Griffith was accommodated (pp. 1-2). The Sotheby's and Charles Miller auction catalogues both assert that John Griffith was one of several passengers to have died from scarlet fever during the voyage, hence the abrupt ending of the journal on 10 February, some six weeks before reaching New Zealand; Griffith himself records the death of a passenger on 26 January (p. 61). However, contemporary newspaper reports of The Indian Empire's arrival in Port Lyttelton, Canterbury Province, on 23 March 1864, list a 'Griffiths' amongst the passengers in the second cabin, rather than as one of the passengers to have died on the passage (see for instance 'Shipping Intelligence', Lyttelton Times, 26 March 1864, p. 4). The actual fate of John Griffith is therefore uncertain.

Journal of a voyage to Shanghai and activities afterwards by ?R. W. Williams. English. Between boards. Purchased from Commander H. B. Stewart, c/o Messrs C. E. Williams & Co., Oswestry, 1968.

Journal, 1904-23, of Arthur Bevan, Roath Park, Cardiff, recording sea voyages on cargo ships to South America, Italy, South Africa, Australia and Canada.

Journal, late 19th cent.
Journal of a cycling tour of the Forest of Dean and part of co. Monmouth, illustrated with original water-colour sketches and photographs. A printed advert, c. 1893, promoting the 'New Howe Road Racer', endorsed with a note, 1894, on the Old Gate House Tavern, Highgate Hill, found loose inside the volume, has been tipped in at the end.

Journal of David Vaughan, Bonvilstone. See also NLW MS 20150C. English. Leather. Purchased from H. N. Colvin, St John's College, Cambridge, November 1969.

A photostat facsimile of a manuscript of the journal of George Fox, Quaker.

Journal of Iltyd Bond Nicholl. (Formerly Llanmaes MS 86.) English. Boards. Purchased from E. P. W. Nicholl, Llanmaes House, Glamorganshire, 1939-1940.

The journal of Richard Henry Mostyn Price. English.

Journal of T. J. Evans, Carmarthen. English. Donated by the late T. J. Evans, Esq., M.B.E., Clunderwen, February 1966. Not to be made available until 2016.

A holograph journal, 1884, of the Rev. D. B. Griffiths describing a visit to his father in America.

Journal, 1880-1917, of the Rev. William Rees, minister of the Independent Church ['Yr Hen Gapel'] in the village of Llechryd, co. Cardigan, 1864-1880, and of Tabernacle Church in the same village, 1880-19 [ ]. The latter church had been established and a new chapel built by the said William Rees and his followers in 1880, after they had seceded from the Independent Church as a result of friction arising from conflicting views on a number of topics. The contents of the volume consist basically of an account of the writer's life and of the history of the new church from 1880 onwards, but the narrative is interspersed with lengthy passages and entire sections devoted to religious and moral declamation and mysticism. The writer sometimes expresses his thoughts in verse. Biographical data relating to the writer's life prior to 1880 are found on pp. 437 et seq. Inset are a holograph letter from W. A. Williams (honorary secretary of the New Church Missionary Society), Swansea, to [the Rev. William] Rees, 1914 (greetings from the Society's annual assembly), and a holograph letter from John Thomas, Llandilo, also by inference to William Rees, 1911 (an invitation to preach in Horeb Chapel, Llandilo).

Journal, July-October 1788, of Thomas Ellis Owen, then a student at Christ Church, Oxford, later rector of Llandyfrydog, Anglesey, describing a tour of Germany, from London to Weimar.
The journal includes descriptions of Hamburg (ff. 2-3), Hanover (ff. 4 verso-6), Wolfenbüttel (8 recto-verso), the silver mines at Goslar (ff. 9 verso-11 verso), Göttingen (ff. 13-14), Münden (ff. 14-15), Cassel (ff. 15-19), and Weimar and its environs (ff. 21-28). The volume includes an anecdote relating to Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (ff. 18-19), and an account of a conversation with Goethe. (ff. 27 verso-28 verso).

A journal of tours to Tenby, Aberystwyth, etc. from 9 August to 3 September 1831, to the English Lakes from 1 to 29 August 1833, and to Matlock and Bakewell from 24 to 29 August 1835, with notes on a later tour, 1840, and some sketches.

Journal of tours of Holland, France and Italy undertaken probably by a member of the family of Rushout of Burford, near Tenbury.
In A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800, compiled from the Brinsley Ford Archive by John Ingamells (New Haven and London, 1997), p. 829, the manuscript is ascribed to John Rushout, 1st Baron Northwick (1738-1800) of Northwick Park, Worcestershire; the Dictionary also briefly describes the manuscript's contents.