File NLW MS 11008D. - Lunatic asylum for Glamorgan, etc.,

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NLW MS 11008D.

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Lunatic asylum for Glamorgan, etc.,

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  • 1846-1847. (Creation)

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Minute book, 1846-1847, of the Committee of Visitors appointed by the Court of Quarter Sessions for Glamorgan (under 8 & 9 Vict., c. 126, as amended by 9 & 10 Vict., c. 84) to erect and build a Lunatic Asylum for the county alone or to treat with any other county or counties for its erection. The volume also contains the following transcripts:- orders for the appointment of the committee at the Epiphany Sessions of 1846 and 1847; a letter, 14 October, 1847, from R. W. Lutwidge, secretary to the Commissioners in Lunacy, to Sir Denis Le Marchant, Home Office, and a letter, 16 October, 1847, from the latter to [Thomas Dalton], Clerk of the Peace for Glamorgan; and representations [1847] by the committee to Sir George Grey, Home Secretary.

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English.

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The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part XX, 287.

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See also NLW Nevill papers, 2221-2227, which contains letters, 1848, from Thomas Dalton to R. J. Nevill relating to the purchase of the Dan y Graig estate as a site for the United Lunatic Asylum; NLW Briton Ferry papers, 216, which contains an agreement, 1851, for the sale of the Dan y Graig estate to the Committee of Visitors of the United Lunatic Asylum as a site for establishing the asylum; NLW MS 11007E, which contains records and correspondence, 1846-1856, of the Committee of Visitors of the United Lunatic Asylum.

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Preferred citation: NLW MS 11008D.

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vtls004593879

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH

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November 2008.

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  • English

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Archivist's note

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961); Oxford Dictionary of National Biography on-line;

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