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- 1833-ca. 1858 / (Creation)
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i, 59 ff. (leaves cut out after ff. 39, 59; ff. 18 verso-37 blank); 175 x 115 mm. Quarter-leather.
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Archival history
'The gift of Mad[emoi]selle Petit to C. Jones June 18[ ]' and ticket of Atelier Guy, stationers, rue St Honoré, Paris, inside front cover, also later signature of J. Jones; 'November 15th [18]58' on f. 17 verso, 'Dec[embe]r 8th [18]55' on f. 38.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Dylan's Bookstore; Swansea; Purchase; 1994
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Journal of a tour in France and Switzerland, June-[September] 1833, made by Mrs C. Jones, lady's maid, apparently from north-east Wales, accompanying her employers, William Henry Fox Talbot of Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, and his wife, Charlotte [Constance in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography WWW site] (née Munby), and Mademoiselle Amélina Petit de Billier (c. 1798-1876), family friend and former governess to William Talbot's half-sisters. Entries from 8 September, when she joined her new employer (see note under 544, below), a Miss York, in Geneva, until her return to England on 22 September, are in pencil, overwritten with transcripts of poetry; miscellaneous commonplace entries, 1833-c. 1858, were added by Mrs Jones both during and after the tour and later by other hands.
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Language and script notes
English
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Finding aids
The contents of NLW MSS 22853-23691 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23248A
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- Jones, C., lady's maid -- Diaries (Subject)
- Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877. (Subject)
- Talbot, Constance Fox, 1811-1880 (Subject)
- de Billier, Amélina Petit, ca. 1798-1876 (Subject)
- Acland, Arthur (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
March 2009.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003);