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The diary of William Herbert, 1886-87,

  • NLW ex 2859.
  • File
  • 2014.

Typescript transcript by Robert Humphries of the diary of William Herbert, a Welsh emigrant to Ohio, which he kept while on a visit to the Rhondda Valleys and the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales, 1886-8. The original Welsh transcription is side by side with the English translation by Robert Humphries. William Herbert was born in Colwinston, Glamorgan, and began working as a coal miner as a young boy. The foreword and genealogical notes are by Catherine Reuther, Spring Green, Wisconsin, great-great granddaughter of the diarist, 2014.

Herbert, William.