Lady Charlotte Guest journals

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

  • Reference
    • GB 210 Charlotte Guest MSS III, VI-XXXI
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1824-1891
  • Language of Material
    • English French English, some French.
  • Physical Description
    • 28 volumes.

Scope and Content

Journals, 1824, 1827-1859, 1869-1891, of Lady Charlotte Guest (née Bertie, other married name Schreiber).
Summaries and short extracts from journals III-XVI were published in The Diaries of Lady Charlotte Guest, ed. by the Earl of Bessborough (1950), and from volumes XVI-XXXI in Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extracts from her Journal, 1853-91, ed. by the Earl of Bessborough (1952). Extracts from volumes XI-XIII relating to the translation of the Mabinogion were published in D. Rhys Phillips, Lady Charlotte Guest and the Mabinogion (Carmarthen, 1921). Volumes XIX-XXVII were published in Lady Charlotte Schreiber's Journals: Confidences of a Collector of Ceramics and Antiques, ed. by Montague J. Guest & Egan Mew, 2 vols (1911).

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically at NLW.

Note

Title based on contents.

Additional Information

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