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Photograph album of Italy,

Photograph album containing a small number of photographs taken by Gareth Jones during his visit to Italy in 1922. Also includes photographs of Mount Vesuvius. There are also a few photographs of members of the family.

Journal

Journal, 1 September 1853-28 December 1854, 10 April-3 June 1855, of Lady Charlotte Guest (later Schreiber), in Canford, Dowlais, London, France and Italy.
Also included are loose notes for a journal, 1858-1860 (9 ff.).

Journal

Journal, April 1887-November 1888, of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, at Bournemouth, London, Uffington and Canford, and in Italy.

Diary

Diary of Raymond Garlick for the year 1991, with one week to a view, giving an account of his daily life, interests, work and comments on the news (ff. 8 verso-60 verso).
The volume includes references to Jon Dressel (ff. 11 verso-54 passim), R. S. Thomas (ff. 15 verso, 16 verso, 18, 19 verso, 20 verso, 33 verso, 59), Tony Conran (f. 18 verso), Daniel Huws (ff. 23 verso, 25), Gareth Wardell (f. 29 verso), Roland Mathias (ff. 31 verso, 32 verso, 47 verso, 53) and the Dock Leaves Group (f. 32 verso). It also describes a visit to Amsterdam, Netherlands, 12-16 April (ff. 23 recto-verso) and a cruise, 3-18 September, of the Eastern Mediterranean, calling at various locations in Greece, Turkey and Italy (ff. 43 verso-45 verso).

Travel diary

A notebook containing a diary by Raymond Garlick, 24 July-17 August 1950, recording his pilgrimage with his wife Elin from Wales to Rome, via France and Italy, during the Holy Year of 1950 (ff. 3-31, rectos only). The couple travelled mainly by hitch-hiking.
Garlick also collected stamps and signatures from various religious houses and churches on the route for an 'Ecclesiastical Passport' (ff. 86-90 verso, inverted text). Pasted into the volume are letters of introduction from the Bishop of Menevia and the Garlicks' parish priest in Pembroke Dock (inside front and back covers). Also included is a draft of Garlick's editorial for Dock Leaves, No. 3 (Michaelmas 1950), 1-5, drawing on his travels to give his impressions of France and Italy (ff. 43-51). Miscellaneous items of ephemera found loose in the volume have been tipped in on empty leaves (ff. 32-38); these relate to the pilgrimage, except for two receipts from a visit to Spain in August 1951 (ff. 37-38).

Journal of tour,

A journal of John Thomas, 30 September-21 December 1854, describing a tour in Italy, visiting Genoa, Naples, Pompeii and Rome.
Also included (f. 1 verso) is an account of the start of his first journey to the continent, 22 October 1851 (see MS 23392iA, f. 1).

John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia)

Journals of tours

Journals of Joan Denny describing a tour in Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy, August-October 1878 (MS 23404A, pp. 1-80; MS 23405A, pp. 1-130), and a visit to Vienna, Munich and Nuremberg, May 1880 (MS 23405A, pp. 131-154).

Joan Denny (later Thomas).

'Souvenirs d'Italie',

Journal of Maria Elizabeth Thomas, containing a description of her travels in Italy, 1820, visiting Genoa, Sienna and Florence; a translation from the Italian of Act 1 of Alfieri's tragedy, Philip II; and a transcript of a story in German; with an engraving of Whichelo's 'Destruction of Jerusalem' [watermark 1822] pasted inside the back cover.

Maria Elizabeth Thomas.

Journal of a tour,

A journal of Henry Richard's tour, with his wife and Mr and Mrs Bishop, in Switzerland and Italy, September 1880, and of a journey in Italy, August-September 1883.

Henry Richard.

Journals of continental tours,

Journals kept by Frances (Fanny) Williams Wynn during tours in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland and Italy, 1833-1840. Some of the journals contain engravings and original sketches.

Williams-Wynn, Frances, 1773-1857

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