• Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 22000B.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004260601
      (alternative) (WlAbNL)0000260601
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1823-1825 /
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 18 ff. interleaved (leaves cut out after f. 12) ; 205 x 125 mm. Leather covers, double blind fillet.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Diary of Captain Edward Chapman Bradford of Trinity House recording his visits to lighthouses in Wales, Cornwall, Devon and Somerset, July-August 1825 (ff. 4-12). The volume also contains a letter, ?1825, from Bradford to his daughter Maria (f. 15) and, in a different hand, notes on various lighthouses and lightships in England, 1823-1824 (ff. 1-2, inverted text 12 recto-verso, 14 recto-verso, 18 recto-verso); an extract from a journal of Captain Wilbanks, [1823x1825] (inverted text f. 13); and observations of W. Jones, lieutenant of the Mermaid, on Fern [Farne] Islands, 1824 (ff. 2 verso-3 verso).

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Christie's; London; Purchased at auction, lot 54; 28 March 1984

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 22000B.

Other Finding Aids

The contents of NLW MSS 21701-22852 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 8 (Aberystwyth, 1999).

Custodial History

Labels bearing 'Major A. Bradford Woodgate' and 'Diary of Capt. E. C. Chapman [sic] Trinity House Ship The "Hope" 1823' pasted on front cover; brief memoranda on Bradford and his family, in the hand of A. Bradford Woodgate, inside front and back covers and on first interleaf.

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