File NLW MS 17415D. - Papers of the Richard family, Tregaron and London.

Identity area

Reference code

NLW MS 17415D.

Title

Papers of the Richard family, Tregaron and London.

Date(s)

  • 1816-1886 / (Creation)

Level of description

File

Extent and medium

22 ff.; 340 x 210 mm. and less.

Context area

Name of creator

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

The Rev. H. R. Evans, great grandson of Ebenezer Richard; Broadhempston; Donation.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

A collection of family papers relating to the Richard family of Tregaron. The collection includes letters from the Reverend Ebenezer Richard addressed to members of his family, together with letters from his son, the Reverend Henry Richard, also mainly addressed to family members.
The collection also contains a table in the hand of Ebenezer Richard, dated 5 December 1816, showing dates of circuit journeys to be undertaken by Calvinistic Methodist ministers in Cardiganshire during 1817; a petition, dated [1878], addressed to W. E. Gladstone, Prime Minister, from Henry Richard and others, and enclosing papers, dated 1878, relating to the Abersychan Relief Committee; and a printed address by Henry Richard directed to the electorate of Merthyr Tydfil, Vaynor and Aberdare.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Arranged chronologically at NLW.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Conditions governing reproduction

Usual copyright laws apply.

Language of material

  • English
  • Welsh

Script of material

Language and script notes

English, some Welsh.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Finding aids

Allied materials area

Existence and location of originals

Existence and location of copies

Related units of description

See also CMA 14174-6, which contain correspondence from Ebenezer Richard to his daughters, Mary and Hannah, and to Mary and Samuel Morris, his daughter and son-in-law; NLW MS 14020D, which contains personal correspondence, 1830-1866, of Ebenezer and Henry Richard to and from family members; CMA 14180, which contains 'The Family Register of Mary and Ebenezer Richard', being a diary kept by Ebenezer Richard, 1809-36 (typewritten copy made by the Reverend Henry Richard Evans, vicar of Broadhempston, Devon, the great grandson of Ebenezer Richard, July 1935); NLW MS 5504C, which contains letters, 1870-1887, from W. E. Gladstone to Henry Richard, some of which refer to Nonconformity in Welsh education and in Parliament and three of which, dated 27 February 1872, 29 November 1872 and 22 September 1883, refer to the appointment of a Nonconformist candidate to a vacant post on the Charity Commission (see NLW MS 17415D, f. 12); and NLW MSS 14021D - 14022E, which contain correspondence, 1873-[1886], between Henry Richard and W. E. Gladstone, including a reference to the appointment of the Inspector of Mines in South Wales (see NLW MS 17415D, ff. 17-18 verso).

Related descriptions

Publication note

See NLW MS 11052E, which contains the incomplete manuscript biography of Henry Richard by Griffith Jones, Llanfairfechan ('Glan Menai') and in which it is related how Henry Richard spoke against the non-representation of Welsh Nonconformists in Parliament (ff. 39-40, 49-50).

Notes area

Note

Title based on contents.

Note

Also included is a photocopy of Ebenezer Richard's circuit table (f. 11).

Note

Preferred citation: NLW MS 17415D.

Alternative identifier(s)

Virtua system control number

vtls004437974

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Description identifier

Institution identifier

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

Rules and/or conventions used

Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH.

Status

Level of detail

Dates of creation revision deletion

May 2007.

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

Sources

Archivist's note

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans;

Accession area