Autobiographical Diary of Thomas Jones, Pencerrig

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

Reference
- GB 210 NLW MS 15169C.
Alternative Id.
Dates of Creation
- 1948
Name of Creator
- Jones, Thomas, 1742-1803.
Language of Material
- English English.
Physical Description
- vi, 311 ff. (foliated 1-309; versos mostly blank) ; 250 x 200 mm.
  Half leather.
Location
- LLYFPRINT/PRINTEDBOOKS
  ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

A typed transcript, 1948, of the memoirs and journal of Thomas Jones, Pencerrig, recounting his life in London, France and especially Italy during the second half of the eighteenth century. It was copied from another typescript (then owned by C. L. Evan-Thomas) of the original manuscript (now NLW MS 23812D).
The volume broadly covers the period from the 1760s to December 1783, with a final entry by Jones at Pencerrig, November 1798 (ff. 303-304). The main text is typed on the rectos only, with Jones' original notes reproduced on the facing versos. Facsimile copies of a sketch of Mt Vesuvius and a plan of Jones’ lodgings in Naples in 1780, apparently redrafted by the creator of the initial typescript, have been inserted after ff. 168 and 201.

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Acquisition Information

NLW; 1948.

Note

Original title.

The typescript appears to have been created at NLW (along with the identical copies NLW Misc. Vol. 288 and XND 497 J79), the title page (f. v) being consistent with those of the National Library press of the period.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 15169C.