Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1889-1897 / (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
Varying from 20 to 73 ff. ; c. 160 x 100 mm. Notebooks; cloth or paper covers or stitched into paper covers at NLW.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Mr Fred Green; Trevelin, Chubut, Republica Argentina; Donation; September 1996; A1996/126.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Journals for the period 1889-1897, with gaps, of William Thomas Williams, Gaiman, Chubut, Patagonia, mostly describing expeditions to the Andean sector of Chubut to explore the settlement potential of the region.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Welsh.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
The contents are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003).
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Publication note
See Glyn Williams, The Desert and the Dream (Cardiff, 1975), pp. 109n., 210.
Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MSS 23551-8A.
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Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
May 2009.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS;