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- [20 cent., first ½]. (Creation)
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Extent and medium
66 ff. (original foliation 1-28, 31, 33-34, 36-44, 46-57 continued to end; ff. 1, 57-70 blank) ;270 x 410 mm.Red morocco with double gold fillets, marbled endpapers and gilded page edges; 'AUTOGRAPHS', 'POLTALLOCH' and 'VOL. V' (stamped in gold on front cover).Some fifteen leaves excised, in all probability prior to their accession at NLW.Some fifteen leaves excised, in all probability prior to their accession at NLW
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Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
A. R. Llewellin-Taylour; London; Donation; April 1956
Content and structure area
Scope and content
An album containing ninety-three holograph letters and documents, 1810-1915, apparently one of a series of at least five volumes brought together, [20 cent., first ½], by a member of the Malcolm family of Poltalloch, Argyll, Scotland, as a collection of the autographs of prominent legal, political, ecclesiastical and other public figures.
Fifty-six of the letters, 1894-1915, are addressed to George Cave, [later Viscount Cave] (ff. 5-7, 13-28, 36, 38-40, 42-44, 46-54, 56); three, 1868-1874, are to his father, Thomas Cave, MP (ff. 13, 31, 49). The typescript index to the contents on f. 2 records items, no longer present, from Winston Churchill, Benjamin Disraeli, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Johnson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Queen Victoria, George IV and others.
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Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
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Language and script notes
English.
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Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 16599E.
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Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Cave, George, 1856-1928 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Cave, George, 1856-1928. (Subject)
- Cave, Thomas, 1825-1894. (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
May 2007.
Language(s)
- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Rhys Morgan Jones;