• Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 12023B.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004941206
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1853-1873 /
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • Welsh, English.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Seventy-nine holograph letters and imperfect letters, 1853-1873 and undated, written by Robert Griffith Jones, successively curate of Llanarmon-yn-Iâl and Rhuddlan and vicar of Llanarmon-yn-Iâl. The letters, written from St. Bees College [Cumberland], Llanarmon-yn-Iâl, Rhuddlan, etc., are addressed largely to his cousin Evan Jones, Port-madoc, but there are a few to his cousins Catherine (Cate) Jones and Owen Evan Jones. Among the subjects discussed are personal and family matters; the writer's ordination, and his curacy at Llanarmon-yn-Iâl; purchases of books; the printing business of Evan Jones; the writer's parochial duties; a request for jars of Trefriw water; the recovery of Catherine Jones and Owen Evan Jones from typhoid fever; a welcome to the writer at Bodrhyddan; etc.

Note

Title based on contents.

Formerly known as J. T. Evans 34.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 12023B.

Other Finding Aids

The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).

Additional Information

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