Surveyor's Notebook,

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

Reference
- GB 210 NLW MS 23982C.
Alternative Id.
Dates of Creation
- 1865 /
Name of Creator
- Sopwith, Thomas, 1803-1879
Language of Material
- English.
Physical Description
- 124 ff. (ff. 40-91, 118-123 blank) ; 215 x 140 mm. and less. Limp calf with folding flap, and remains of silk tie.
Location
- ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Field notes, May-September 1865, by Thomas Sopwith of London relating to a survey of the mountains of Moelwyn Mawr and Moelwyn Bach, Meirionnydd. The notebook contains 38 sketches (ff. 2-39, 124v), ten of which are executed in ink and wash colour, and the remainder in pencil, all drawn in May 1865. A further section of explanatory notes in ink, May-September 1865 (ff. 92-117), records the background to the survey, together with details of the work undertaken by Sopwith and his surveyor, Henry Robinson, including trials for slate (ff. 110-111).
The work was commissioned by the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues in preparation for a three-dimensional geological model by Sopwith. This 'model of the mountain Moel Wyn' is referred to in Sopwith's 'Description of a Series of Elementary Geological Models' (London, 1875), p. 78 as being 'open to public view', but its present whereabouts is unknown; see further Robert Sopwith, 'Thomas Sopwith Surveyor: an exercise in self-help' (Bishop Auckland, 1994), p. 196.

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Acquisition Information

Lesley Aitchison; Redland, Bristol; Purchase; September 2008; 004559369

Note

Title based on contents.

'Memoranda and Sketches &c &c Moelwyn Mawr and Bach near Tan y Bwlch Merionethshire. Thomas Sopwith 103 Victoria Street Westminster S.W. May 27th, 29th, 30th, 31st 1865' (f. 1).

Initially sold at Bonham's Wales & West Sale, Bath, 12 July 2008, lot 455.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23982C.