Letters to Sir Richard Colt Hoare

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

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 15257D.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004437325
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1804-1806
  • Language of Material
    • English Latin Welsh English, Latin, Welsh.
  • Physical Description
    • 49 ff. ; 325 x 205 mm. and less.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Nineteen letters, 1804-1806, to Sir Richard Colt Hoare, mostly concerning antiquities in Brecknockshire and elsewhere in Wales, as well as Shropshire and Cheshire, and mostly relating to Hoare's research for his Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales, A.D. 1188, by Giraldus de Barri …, 2 vols (London, 1806) (ff. 1-34).
The correspondents include Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), 1 November 1804 (ff. 1-2), R[ichard] Fenton, 1805 (ff. 3-11), Theophilus Jones, [?1805] (ff. 16-17), William Owen [Pughe], 1805-1806 (ff. 18-23), and [the Rev.] Henry [Thomas] Payne, 1804-1805 (ff. 24-34). The letters also include a sketch map of possible Roman remains near Llanymynech, Montgomeryshire (f. 2); a transcript of a Latin document of 1295/6 relating to Shrawardine Castle (f. 15); and translations into English by William Owen [Pughe] of part of an ode and englynion by Cynddelw (f. 19 verso, 20-21). Also included are further notes by William Owen [Pughe] on Bardic lore and Cynddelw (ff. 35-47) and by Henry Thomas Payne on Giraldus Cambrensis (ff. 48-49).

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by correspondent at NLW.

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Acquisition Information

Mr H. de S. Shortt, curator, Salisbury, South Wiltshire & Blackmore Museum; Salisbury; Donation; December 1950

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 15257D.

Archivist's Note

December 2007 and May 2014.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifan, and revised by Rhys Morgan Jones

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