R. H. Richards manuscripts

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

  • Reference
    • GB 210 MSRHRICH
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004530129
  • Dates of Creation
    • [18 cent.]-[1876]
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English Welsh Welsh, English.
  • Physical Description
    • 6 volumes.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Papers, [18 cent.]-[1876], from the library of Professor Richard Humphrey Richards, including a manuscript of John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), Llyfr Tonau Cynnulleidfaol (Wrexham: Hughes, 1876), Ieuan Gwyllt's manuscript of a proposed English hymnal, and correspondence, 1860-1874, and notes of Ieuan Gwyllt; sermon notes, 1731-1763; and an eighteenth-century commonplace book.

Administrative / Biographical History

Richard Humphrey Richards was professor of Welsh at St David's College, Lampeter, from 1916 to 1941.

Arrangement

Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 9913-9918.

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Acquisition Information

Richard Humphrey Richards; Lampeter; Donation; 1935.

Note

Richard Humphrey Richards was professor of Welsh at St David's College, Lampeter, from 1916 to 1941.

The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961), Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940 (Llundain, 1953).

Title based on contents.

Formerly R. H. Richards MSS 1-6.

Preferred citation: NLW MSS 9913-9918.

Other Finding Aids

Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961), pp. 179-180.

Archivist's Note

July 2008 and May 2011.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifan for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS, and revised by Bethan Ifan.

Additional Information

Published

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