The journal of William Williams (1774-1839), sometime MP for Weymouth and Melcomb Regis, co. Dorset, describing a walking tour through Wales and to Liverpool and Chester, May-June 1796, accompanied by the Reverend James Burgess. A note on f. i verso - 'The following Copy was made from the original Tour by a Welsh servant, not well acquainted with the English language. Hence the errors in spelling & grammar, with which it abounds' - is in the same hand as the final paragraph of the narrative and as emendations and additions to the text. Other additions, mainly on the blank dorse of folios, are in a different hand, possibly that of James Burgess.
Tour of Wales,
This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
- Reference
- GB 210 NLW MS 23253C
- Alternative Id.(alternative) vtls004637635
- Dates of Creation
- 1796 /
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- i, 154 ff. (foliated 1-129, no. 54 missed out; blank leaves after f. 129 not numbered) ; 235 x 185 mm. Full leather with double blind fillet.
- Location
- ARCH/MSS (GB0210)
Scope and Content
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Acquisition Information
A. R. Heath; Bristol; Purchase; 1994
Note
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23253C
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
March 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);
Custodial History
Label 'My Grandfather W. Williams' journal in Wales 1796' on front cover. Once part of the library of Montague Williams (b. 1826) of Woolland House, co. Dorset, grandson of William Williams.
Additional Information
Published
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