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- 1764-[?1835]. (Creation)
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19 ff. ; 305 x 205 mm. and less.
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Thomas Pennant, naturalist, antiquary and traveller, was born on the Downing estate in Flintshire. He was educated at Wrexham and London before entering Queen's College, Oxford aged eighteen. Thomas developed a love of the natural world at school and began travelling whilst at Oxford; in the following years he travelled widely throughout Britain and Europe. The Outlines of the Globe was Thomas's most ambitious literary project. The work originally took up twenty-two volumes but only four of these were published - two by Pennant himself and two by his son, David.
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Scope and content
Seven letters with related papers, 1764-[c. 1835], addressed to Thomas Pennant (ff. 3-10), his son David Pennant (ff. 13-17, 19) and David's wife, Louisa (ff. 11-12, 18) of Downing, Flintshire, on subjects including ornithology, zoology and wildlife drawings.
The correspondents are W[illiam] Myddelton, 2 March 1775, enclosing a note of hand of Thomas Pennant, 22 July 1774 (signature cut), donating £100 to a Welsh charity school in Gray's Inn Road (ff. 3-5); the Rev. Edward Williams, 24 August [?1795] (watermark 1794), including a watercolour drawing of a half-timbered house in Shrewsbury, and 26 September [1797] (watermark 1795), concerning the death of Mrs Emma-Elizabeth Corbet of Sundorne Castle (ff. 6-10); Katherine Plymley, Longnor, 18 January 1811 (ff. 11-12); Hugh Davies, Beaumaris, 5 November 1816, enclosing three pencil drawings of puffins (ff. 13-17); Margaret Roscoe, [12] August 1829 (f. 18); and [Canon] William Williams, Ysceifiog Rectory, 1 March [?1835], concerning the dilapidated state of the church at Ysceifiog (f. 19). Also included are financial accounts, 1764-1765, of the artist Peter Paillou relating to drawings purchased by Thomas Pennant (ff. 1-2).
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Arranged chronologically at NLW.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
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English.
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Digital version available http://hdl.handle.net/10107/5762028 (January 2022)
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Note
Previously 12 numbered items; rearranged and foliated, October 2013.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 17420D.
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- St Mary's Church (Ysceifiog, Wales) (Subject)
- Pennant, David, 1763-1841 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Pennant, Louisa, d. 1843 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Corbet, Emma-Elizabeth, d. 1797 -- Death and burial. (Subject)
- Pennant, Louisa, d. 1843. (Subject)
- Davies, Hugh, 1739?-1821. (Subject)
- Plymley, Katherine, 1758?-1829. (Subject)
- Sandbach, Henry R., Mrs., 1812-1852. (Subject)
- Williams, William d. 1835? (Subject)
- Myddelton, William, Inner Temple. (Subject)
- Williams, Edward, 1762-1833. (Subject)
- Paillou, Peter. (Subject)
- Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Pennant, David, 1763-1841 (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
May 2007 and October 2013.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Rhys Morgan Jones;