File NLW MS 23707D. - Correspondence relating to the Fourth Regiment of Dragoons

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NLW MS 23707D.

Title

Correspondence relating to the Fourth Regiment of Dragoons

Date(s)

  • [1801x1806] (Creation)

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29 ff. (original pagination 1-56 with additional folio after p. 20; letters nos. 4 and 5 (pp. 49-51) are in reverse order) ; 315 x 185 mm.

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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Bernard Quaritch; London; Purchase; January 1998; B1998/4.

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Final manuscript draft and printers' copy, [1801], for the [?first] edition of Correspondence Relative to the Stationing of a Troop of the Fourth Regiment of Dragoons in the County of Carnarvon (Chester: J. Fletcher, [March] 1801, Libri Walliae 2052), compiled by Edward Griffith of Caernarfon and Ymwlch, Justice of the Peace. The letters, here transcribed by an unidentified hand, relate to the controversy caused by a troop of the Fourth Dragoons being sent to Bangor and Caernarfon on 31 January 1801, in anticipation of further unrest following a disturbance in Caernarfon in November 1800.
Additions and corrections by Griffith, [1801x1806], post-date the publication of the first edition. This has not been seen but a cropped copy of the title-page is included in NLW MS 23626E; the present text corresponds to pp. 1-34 of the second edition (Chester: J. Fletcher, [April] 1801), with some variants. The correspondents represented include Griffith himself, the Duke of Portland, then Home Secretary (pp. 31, 49-50), Viscount Bulkeley (pp. 20-20b, 48, 51), and various county gentry and Dragoon officers.

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Usual copyright laws apply.

Language of material

  • English

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English.

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Related units of description

For Griffith's notes and corrections for the third edition (London: J. Johnson, 1806-7), together with related letters to the printers, Messrs Wood & Innes, London, see NLW MS 23626E.

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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23707D.

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vtls004018866

CAIRS System Control Number

(WLABNL)P1Saan0000016638

GEAC system control number

(WlAbNL)0000018866

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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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

May 2009.

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  • English

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Archivist's note

Description revised by Rhys Morgan Jones;

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