Identity area
Reference code
Title
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
Biographical history
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
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
Access points
Subject access points
- Calvinistic Methodists -- Wales -- Ceredigion
- Coal mines and mining -- Wales -- Abersychan
- Iron-works -- Wales -- Abersychan
- Public welfare -- Wales -- Abersychan
- Poor -- Wales -- Abersychan
- Merthyr Tydfil (Wales) -- Politics and government.
- Vaynor (Merthyr Tydfil, Wales) -- Politics and government
- Aberdare (Wales) -- Politics and government
Place access points
Name access points
- Richard, Ebenezer, 1781-1837 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Richard, Ebenezer, 1781-1837 (Subject)
- Richard, Henry, 1812-1888 (Subject)
- Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 (Subject)
- Richard family, of Tregaron -- Archives (Subject)
- Richard, Henry, 1812-1888 -- Correspondence (Subject)
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Description identifier
Institution identifier
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;