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- 1958. (Creation)
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i, 84 ff. ; 460 x 360 mm. Red morocco over boards; gold tooling on front cover, double gold fillets on spine, blind fillets on back cover; '1958 Llyfr aur croeso gŵyl Cymru The golden book of welcome Festival of Wales' (gold on front cover); watered silk end-papers.
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Western Mail Ltd; Cardiff; Donation; May 1960
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Scope and content
The 'Golden Book of Welcome' or 'Llyfr Aur Croeso', containing signatures of visitors to Wales during the Festival of Wales in 1958.
Signatories include members of the Royal Family (ff. 1-3 verso) and the Festival of Wales organising committee (ff. 7-8 verso); competitors at (ff. 34-48) and visitors to (ff. 72 verso-79 verso) the VIth British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, July 1958; and visitors to the Royal Welsh Show at Bangor, 23-25 July 1958 (ff. 49-50), the Ebbw Vale National Eisteddfod (ff. 50 verso-51), and the Llangollen International Eisteddfod (ff. 57-72).
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Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- English
- Welsh
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English, Welsh.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 16181F.
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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
July 2006 and May 2014.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifan and revised by Rhys Morgan Jones;