Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1947-1994 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
6 folders, 2 envelopes, 2 volumes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
There were few occasions when William Condry left Wales for any extended period of time. However, in the autumn of 1947, he and his wife, Penny, responded to an invitation by Ronald Lockley to spend several months restoring a house on Jersey. Their next trip abroad was a holiday in 1956, travelling through Belgium, France and Germany to the Swiss National Park. In 1963-4, they spent five months observing wildlife and plants with Mary Richards and Desmond Vesey-Fitzgerald in Africa. Condry visited Africa twice more, in 1967 and 1971. He went to Ireland in 1965 and 1994, where he took a particular interest in the flora of the Burren. In 1966 he visited the Coto Donana and the Ronda mountain range in Spain, in the company of R.S. Thomas. During the spring of 1969, he and Penny made a journey to see the nature reserves of Scotland. In July 1981, he was invited to lecture to the Thoreau Society in Concord, Massachussetts, and the records of that trip are listed separately. Wherever he went, he made a note of places visited, scenery, wildlife, plants and points of historical interest. The gaps in the main series of his nature diaries can often be filled by the records of his travels which he kept in smaller, pocket diaries.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The series comprises pocket diaries, notebooks, loose index cards, correspondence, articles, printed information booklets and leaflets, maps, checklists and nature reserve management plans, relating to Condry's visits to Africa, Ireland, Jersey, Scotland, Spain and Switzerland, covering the topography, climate, plant and animal life, nature reserves and national parks of each country.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by place name, by type and chronology within files
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
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 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library. = Disgwylir i ddarllenwyr sydd am ddefnyddio papurau modern yn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru gydymffurfio â Deddf Warchod Data 2018 a Rheoliadau Diogelu Data Cyffredinol 2018 yng nghyd-destun unrhyw brosesu ganddynt o ddata personol a gasglwyd o gofnodion modern sydd ar gadw yn y Llyfrgell. Nodir y manylion yn yr wybodaeth a roddir wrth wneud cais am Docyn Darllen
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright of William Condry’s writings belongs to Mrs Penny Condry, Ynys Edwin, Eglwys-fach, nr Machynlleth, Powys, September 2000.
Usual copyright laws apply
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
English, few in Spanish
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Partly indexed in LP6/1, LP6/7-8
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Condry's continued interest in certain places means that some of the items post-date his actual visits
Note
Preferred citation: RT9
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GEAC system control number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Condry, William, 1918-1998 -- Diaries (Subject)