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- 1852-1875 / (Creation)
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Two arithmetic exercise books of Peter Williams of Waun fawr, aft. of Brennig View, Tregaron, co. Cardigan. The fly-leaf of NLW MS 12192B is dated 10 December 1852. NLW MS 12193B also contains a few precedents of official documents of local interest, e.g., a claim to the overseers of the parish of Caron-is-clawdd for insertion in the county list of voters, 1868, and the appointment of an assistant overseer for the same parish. Insertions in NLW MS 12192B include draft applications by Peter Williams, 1875, for the office of Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district of Tregaron, a holograph letter from John Williams, Brenig View, to [ ], [18]75, (the sale of a piece of land), etc.
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English.
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Finding aids
The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).
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Note
Preferred citation: NLW MSS 12192-12193B.
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Name access points
- Williams, John, Brenig View, Tregaron (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
December 2009.
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- English
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Archivist's note
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 IV (Aberystwyth, 1971);