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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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Preferred citation: NLW MS 11008D.
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- United Lunatic Asylum (Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Glamorganshire & Pembrokeshire). Committee of Visitors -- Records and correspondence (Subject)
- Great Britain. Parliament. Lunacy Act (1845) (Subject)
- Great Britain. Court of Epiphany Sessions -- Records and correspondence (Subject)
- Great Britain. Parliament. Lunacy Act (1846) (Subject)
- Great Britain. Parliament. Lunacy Act (1847) (Subject)
- Lutwidge, R. W. (Subject)
- Le Marchant, Denis, 1795-1874 (Subject)
- Dalton, Thomas, 1798-1878 (Subject)
- Grey, George, Sir, 1799-1882 (Subject)
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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;