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- 1906-1919. (Creation)
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A minute book of the Literary Society of Gerlan Calvinistic Methodist Church, Gerlan, Bethesda, Caernarvonshire, covering (with some gaps) the period 1906-19. Among the entries are detailed reports of lectures by Principal [Thomas] Rees, Bangor (on 'David Livingstone'), Professor [Sir] John Morris-Jones, Bangor ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion' and 'Pantycelyn'), Thomas Shankland, Bangor ('Morgan John Rhys, y Jacobin Cymreig'), S. Maurice Jones, Caernarvon ('Olion Hen Hanes Cymru', with illustrations, by the recorder, of Caernarvon Castle, Valle Crucis Abbey, the parliament house of Owain Glyndŵr at Dolgellau, Cefn Brith, etc.), J. H. Jones ('Je Aitsh'), Liverpool ('Y Cymro trwy lygad Said'), [Lewis Davies Jones] ('Llew Tegid') ('Trioedd hen a newydd), [Robert] Gwyneddon Davies and Mrs. [Grace] Gwyneddon Davies ('Alawon Gwerin'), T. Gwynn Jones, Aberystwyth ('Pantycelyn'), etc.
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Welsh.
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The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part XX, 292.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 11024C.
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- Plas-yn-dre (Dolgellau, Wales) (Subject)
- Cefn Brith (Llangamarch, Wales : Dwelling) (Subject)
- Gerlan (Church : Bethesda, Wales). Literary Society -- Records and correspondence (Subject)
- Caernarfon Castle (Caernarfon, Wales) (Subject)
- Valle Crucis Abbey (Wales) (Subject)
- Livingstone, David, 1813-1873 (Subject)
- Wyn, Dewi, 1784-1841 (Subject)
- Williams, William, 1717-1791 (Subject)
- Rhees, Morgan J. (Morgan John), 1760-1804. (Subject)
- Rees, T. (Thomas), 1869-1926 (Subject)
- Morris-Jones, John, 1864-1929 (Subject)
- Shankland, Thomas, 1858-1927 (Subject)
- Jones, S. Maurice fl.1920 (Subject)
- Jones, J. H. (John Herbert), 1860-1943 (Subject)
- Llew Tegid, 1851-1928 (Subject)
- Davies, Robert Gwyneddon, 1870?-1928 (Subject)
- Davies, Grace Gwyneddon (Subject)
- Jones, T. Gwynn (Thomas Gwynn), 1871-1949 (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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December 2008.
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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 III (Aberystwyth, 1961);