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- [?1812] (Creation)
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Extent and medium
149 ff. (text mainly on rectos) ; 180 x 115 mm.
Original reversed calf over boards; blind tooling on covers, double blind fillets on spine; marbled page edges.
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Biographical history
Archival history
'By William', '7/6' and '9469/TEN' in pencil inside front cover.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Blackwell Rare Books; Oxford; Purchase; February 2012; 006225385.
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A commonplace book containing a copy, [?1812] (watermark 1808), of a journal of a picturesque tour in Wales and Ireland, 11 July-23 August 1812, probably written by William Osmund Hammond of St. Alban's Court, Nonington, Kent, describing scenery and points of interest, the weather, towns, people, inns, food, local customs and legends (ff. 17-148 verso).
The writer travelled by carriage in the company of his brother Maximilian [Hammond, later Dalison]. Departing from London on 11 July, the itinerary included Cheltenham and Gloucester (ff. 20-27), the lower Wye Valley (ff. 28-45), Brecon (ff. 49-52), Llandovery (ff. 53-54), Lampeter (ff. 58-60), Cardigan (ff. 61-62), Aberystwyth (ff. 65-71), Dolgellau (ff. 74-75) and Caernarfon (ff. 81-87), reaching Holyhead on 28 July (f. 87). In Ireland they stayed in Dublin (ff. 93-97), then travelled through County Wicklow (ff. 97-111) to Waterford (ff. 115-122) and Cork (ff. 123-126), reaching Killarney (ff. 128-148 verso) on 20 August. Included in the volume are descriptions of boat trips on the Wye from Ross-on-Wye to Chepstow (ff. 29-42) and around the Lakes of Killarney (ff. 131 verso-148 verso), the voyage from Holyhead to DĂșn Laoghaire (ff. 89-92), visits to a pin factory in Gloucester (ff. 22-24) and the glass blowing factory in Waterford (ff. 121 recto-verso), Goodrich Castle, Herefordshire (ff. 30-33), Tintern Abbey (ff. 38-41), Devil's Bridge, Cardiganshire (ff. 66-70), Snowdonia (ff. 78-80, 86), Caernarfon Castle (ff. 83-85) and Glendalough, County Wicklow (ff. 101-107). The Hammonds, and their friends and neighbours the Plumptres of Fredville (see ff. 20-21, 25), were acquaintances of Jane Austen (see Jane Austen's Letters, 4th edn, ed. by Deirdre Le Faye (Oxford, 2011), pp. 530, 562).
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English.
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Ascribed by Blackwell Rare Books to 'William Nethercoat', based on a misreading of the text on f. 17; now ascribed to William Hammond based on his initials on f. 96 and other evidence of content.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 24023A.
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Subject access points
- Boats and boating -- Wye, River, Valley (Wales and England)
- Boats and boating -- Ireland -- Killarney, Lakes of.
- Voyages and travels
- Pins and needles -- England -- Gloucester.
- Glass blowing and working -- Ireland -- Waterford.
- Gloucestershire (England) -- Description and travel
- Wye, River, Valley (Wales and England) -- Description and travel
- Dublin (Ireland) -- Description and travel.
- Wicklow (Ireland : County) -- Description and travel.
- Waterford (Ireland) -- Description and travel.
- Cork (Ireland) -- Description and travel
- Killarney, Lakes of (Ireland) -- Description and travel.
- Glendalough Site (Ireland)
- Devil's Bridge (Wales)
- Snowdonia (Wales)
- Wales -- Description and travel
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- Goodrich Castle (England) (Subject)
- Tintern Abbey. (Subject)
- Caernarfon Castle (Caernarfon, Wales) (Subject)
- Dalison, Maximilian Dudley Digges, 1792-1870 (Subject)
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Friends and associates. (Subject)
- Plumptre family, of Fredville. (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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June 2012.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Rhys Morgan Jones;