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- 1779-1833. (Creation)
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A volume containing seventy-four holograph letters, 1779-1833, one or two undated, on guards, seventy of which were written by the Rev. Thomas Jones (1752-1845), Trippleton (Leintwardine), Herefordshire, Longnor and Loppington, Salop and Creaton, Northamptonshire, sixty-eight to the Rev. Thomas Richards (1754-1837), Llangynfelyn, [Cardiganshire], Llanymowddwy, [Merionethshire] and Darowen, Montgomeryshire, one, 1784, to the Rev. Mr D. Williams, Ystradmeirig [sic] and one, 1789, to Mr Lewis Jones at Ynis-greigiog near Eglwys-Fach, Card[iganshire]. The subjects discussed and persons mentioned in the letters to Thomas Richards include spiritual matters, the addressee's circumstances, Mr [Daniel] Rowlands, the writer's efforts to secure preferment and assistance for the addressee, Mr Charles of Bala, the writer's own situation, his publications, clerical meetings, his work at Creaton, the Rev. Maurice Evans. Of the remaining four letters two are addressed to the Rev. Thomas Richards and are from E. Jones, Llanwryn, 1784 [? brother of the Rev. Thomas Jones] and from another person named Tho[ma]s Jones, Balls Pond, 1805. The other two letters are from Thomas Richards to the Rev. T. Jones, Creaton, 1799 (draft) and 1802, and relate to the writer's family and circumstances, the burial of one of his neighbours ('poor Morgans'), etc.
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Welsh, English.
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Some of the letters appear to have been used by the Rev. John Owen, Thrussington, in his Memoir of the Rev. Thomas Jones, late of Creaton, Northamptonshire (London, 1851).
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Preferred citation: 535D.
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- Jones, Thomas, 1752-1845 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Richards, Thomas, 1754-1837 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Rowland, Daniel, 1713-1790 (Subject)
- Charles, Thomas, 1755-1814 (Subject)
- Evans, Maurice, 1765-1831 (Subject)
- Richards, Thomas, 1754-1837 -- Family (Subject)
- Jones, Thomas, 1752-1845 (Subject)
- Richards, Thomas, 1754-1837 (Subject)