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- 1845-1863 / (Creation)
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Extent and medium
324 ff. with insertions (9 volumes foliated in one sequence; ff. 63-78, 178-183, 259-272, 317-324 blank) ;240 x 185 mm. and less.Nine notebooks, paper covers.Leaves cut out after ff. 194 and 236.Leaves cut out after ff. 194 and 236
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
'Lady Lewis 21 Grafton St 1855' (NLW MS 16583vC, inside front cover).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Mr Geoffrey Bright; Leominster; Donation (with NLW MSS 16582C, 16584E); October 1955
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Scope and content
Nine notebooks containing journals, 1845-1863, kept by Lady Marianne Lewis, of tours on the Continent and in Scotland, the earlier ones in the company of her husband Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis of Harpton Court.
The journals contain accounts of tours in Belgium, Germany, Bohemia, Austria and France, 5 September-14 November 1845 (16583iC, ff. 1-48); Paris, 15 November-17 December 1845 (16583iiC, ff. 49-62); Scotland, 27 August-14 October 1848 (16583iiiC, ff. 79-108); Germany, Switzerland, Northern Italy and France, 8 June-31 July 1851 (16583ivC, ff. 111-135); Bohemia, Austria, Slovenia, Northern Italy, the South of France and Paris, 24 June-5 November 1855 (16583vC, ff. 136-177); Rome and Florence, 9 October 1856-11 January 1857 (16583viC, ff. 184-224); Rome and Naples, 26 November 1857-8 May 1858 (16583viiC, ff. 227-258); Switzerland, 30 July-27 September 1859, and Germany, 22 July-15 September 1860 (16583viiiC, ff. 273-293 verso); Austria and Switzerland, 22 August-3 October 1861, and Switzerland and Northern Italy, 23 July-4 November 1863 (16583ixC, ff. 295-316).
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Arranged chronologically at NLW.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
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English.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 16583i-ixC.
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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
September 2006 and January 2015.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans, and revised by Rhys Morgan Jones;