Commonplace book,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 23524B.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004655937
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1828-1853
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English Welsh English, Welsh.
  • Physical Description
    • iv, 96 ff. (including interleaves; leaf torn out after f. 77) ; 180 x 110 mm.
      Full leather, gilt-edged, with gold tooling and fillet and brass clasp. 'Cofrestr haelionus anrhegwyr Eglwys Dewi Sant yn Lerpwl. Trwy gyfrwng yr enwog foneddiges Angharad Llwyd ofyddes wrth fraint a defawd beirdd Ynys Brydain' in gold on front cover.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

A volume issued, 1828, to the antiqury Angharad Llwyd, Tyn-y-rhyl, Flintshire, for the collection of subscriptions towards St David's Welsh Church, Liverpool, but utilised by her as a commonplace and autograph book. Verse and prose entries, 1830-1853, mostly of a religious nature, include autograph poetry by John Jones (Tegid), Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), and Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall), and entries by Sir John Bernard Bosanquet, Lady Charlotte Guest, Augusta Hall, Lady Llanover, Henry Hart Milman, David Pennant, William Owen[-Pughe], Thomas Raffles, Henry Raikes, John Bird Sumner, and Frances Wrangham. Also included is a letter of address, 1828, to Angharad Llwyd from the Rev. Robert Davies, perpetual curate of St David's Church (f. iii).

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Acquisition Information

Alex Fotheringham; East Chesterhope, Hexham, Northumberland; Purchase; 1996

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23524B.

Other Finding Aids

The contents of NLW MSS 22853-23691 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003).

Archivist's Note

May 2009.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003);

Additional Information

Published

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