Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- [1850x1916] / (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
8 vols.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Daniel Davies (1840-1916) was born at Tregaron, Ceredigion. From 1965 he worked as a cashier to the Ocean Collieries at Ton, Ystrad, Rhondda. He took an active part in the life of Jerusalem C. M. chapel, Ton, and regularly contributed to the Welsh periodical press, particularly to Calvinistic Methodist papers and to Y Brython, 1861-3, Y Genhinen and Cymru. He also published a number of pamphlets and edited the sermons of Islwyn (William Thomas Williams, 1832-1878) and wrote an introductory biographical note to Gwaith Barddonol Islwyn, 1897.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Manuscripts of Daniel Davies (1840-1916), including correspondence of, and miscellaneous papers acquired by him.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 3191-3198.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to sign the 'Modern papers - data protection' form.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- Welsh
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Welsh, English
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
The descriptions are also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume I (Aberystwyth, 1943).
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Rules and/or conventions used
This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) Second Edition; AACR2; and LCSH.
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
October 2005.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
This description was compiled by Si©Øn Medi Davies for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following sources were used for the compliation of this description: Handlist of NLW MSS, Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940 (London, 1959);