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- 1884 (Creation)
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ii, 126 ff. (paginated 1-251) ; 225 x 180 mm.
Cloth over boards; 'First Welsh Tour. 1884' on label on front cover.
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Mr Peter Howell Williams; Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd; Purchase (with NLW MSS 23062-6); 1992.
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Journal of a walking tour in Merionethshire and Caernarfonshire made in August and September 1884 by the geologist Dr Edward Greenly, later of Llandegfan, Anglesey, and described by him in his memoirs, A Hand through Time, 2 vols (London, 1938), I, 104-7. The journal includes four maps and is illustrated throughout with pen-and-ink drawings, the one on p. 194 of the journal, entitled 'Llyn-y-Gader', being reproduced as plate XVI in A Hand Through Time. A few annotations and corrections were added by Greenly in 1935 and 1939.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
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- English
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English.
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Finding aids
The description is also available, together with a detailed list of contents, in Handlist of Manuscripts on the National Library of Wales, vol. 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003).
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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 2017.
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifan.