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- 1756-1909 (Creation)
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i, 108 ff. (leaves torn out after ff. 20 and 25) ; 195 x 160 mm.
Full leather, blind-tooled.
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Archival history
The vendor acquired the diary on the death of its previous owner, the Rev. Gwilym Lewis, Aber.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
The Rev. Gruffudd Emyr Lewis; Llandudno; Purchase; 1985
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Scope and content
The diary, 1756-1760, of John Thomas, Tre-main, co. Cardigan, a teacher at Griffith Jones's Circulating Schools, recording his spiritual pilgrimage and including an account of his conversion experience in 1757 (ff. 33-5) as well as his soul-searching in response to some four hundred and seventy sermons by Daniel Rowland, William Williams, Howel Davies, Peter Williams, John Popkin, Richard Tibbott, William Richard and other Methodist clergy and exhorters. Also included are autobiographical notes (ff. 21 verso-5) and transcripts of letters from the hymnist Morgan Rhys (ff. 41, 87 verso-8 verso). The diary has been transcribed by John Thickens and published in Y Drysorfa, 101-3 (1931-1933) and Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes Eglwys Methodistiaid Calfinaidd Cymru, 56 (1971) and 57 (1972). Three letters, 1909, to the Reverend Gwilym Lewis, rector of Aber, co. Caernarfon, from 1925, found loose inside the volume, have been tipped in (ff. 103-8).
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Welsh.
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Finding aids
The contents of NLW MSS 21701-22852 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 8 (Aberystwyth, 1999).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 22070B.
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- Thomas, John, 1733-1784 -- Diaries. (Subject)
- Rowland, Daniel, 1713-1790. (Subject)
- Williams, William, 1717-1791. (Subject)
- Davies, Howel, c. 1716-1770. (Subject)
- Popkin, John, fl. 1759-1824. (Subject)
- Tibbott, Richard, 1719-1798. (Subject)
- Richards, William, 1749-1818. (Subject)
- Rhys, Morgan, 1716-1779. (Subject)
- Thickens, John, 1865-1952. (Subject)
- Lewis, Gwilym, 1871-1951. (Subject)
- Williams, Peter, 1723-1796 (Subject)
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This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH.
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- English