Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1798-1883 / (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
175 ff. (ff. 108 verso-45 mostly blank; several leaves torn out) ; 155 x 100 mm. Full leather, with blind tooling and brass clasp.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
'Jonathan Morgan his Book bought at Evan Evans preacher and Book binder. Cost one shilling and sixpence, 1798' inside back cover.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Dr W. J. Brinley Morgan; Woking; Donation; 1996
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Memorandum book belonging, 1798-1838, to Jonathan Morgan, Pant-y-bryn, parish of Llandybïe, co. Carmarthen, farmer and joiner, containing farming, joinery and other accounts including payments to workmen, accounts of money loaned on 'Bidding Days', and accounts relating to the building of Bethel Congregational church ('Yr Hen Fethel'), Cwmaman, co. Carmarthen; furniture designs and specifications; recipes for colouring wood; and miscellaneous memoranda. Further entries, to 1883, by his son William Morgan and grandson Jonathan Morgan, both of Bodist Uchaf, Glanaman, co. Carmarthen, include rent, bidding and other accounts; and family memoranda.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- Welsh
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Welsh, English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
The contents of NLW MSS 22853-23691 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
Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23490A.
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Access points
Subject access points
- Agriculture -- Wales -- Llandybïe -- Accounting
- Agricultural administration -- Wales -- Llandybïe -- Accounting
- Farmers -- Wales -- Llandybïe -- Accounting
- Joiners -- Wales -- Llandybïe -- Accounting
- Agriculture -- Wales -- Llandybïe -- Employees -- Salaries, etc.
- Joiners -- Wales -- Llandybïe -- Employees -- Salaries, etc.
- Farmers -- Wales -- Llandybïe -- Employees -- Salaries, etc.
- Farmers -- Wales -- Glanaman -- Accounting
- Agriculture -- Wales -- Glanaman -- Accounting
- Agricultural administration -- Wales -- Glanaman -- Accounting
Place access points
Name access points
- Hen Fethel (Cwmaman, Wales) -- Accounting (Subject)
- Pant-y-bryn (Llandybïe, Wales : Farm) -- Accounting (Subject)
- Bodist Uchaf (Glanaman, Wales : Farm) -- Accounting (Subject)
- Morgan, Jonathan, 1778-1838 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. (Subject)
- Morgan, William, 1821-1878 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. (Subject)
- Morgan, Jonathan, 1849-1896 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. (Subject)
- Morgan, William, 1821-1878 (Subject)
- Morgan, Jonathan, 1849-1896 (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
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. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003);