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Title
Date(s)
- 1686/7-1930 (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
iv, 98 ff. ; 375 x 235 mm. and less.
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Folios 34-5, 40-3, 46, 48, 50, 54-7, 61-2, 65-70, 79-81, 87-90: Edward Hall; Surbiton; Purchase; October 1955.
Folios 1-33, 36-9, 46-7, 49, 52-5, 60-4, 71-8, 82-6, 91-8: Edward Hall; Surbiton; Purchase (with NLW MSS 16629-30); January 1956.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A collection of some fifty-seven miscellaneous autograph letters, 1686/7-1930, mostly of Welsh interest, brought together by the dealer and collector Edward Hall, Surbiton.
Eighteen of the letters are correspondence of the barrister J. W. Buck, his wife Sophia (née Brigstoke, of Blaenpant, Cardiganshire), his sister Mrs Sarah Whittaker and their respective families, 1792-1825 (ff. 5-8, 10-43). Twelve letters, 1851, from various Welsh boroughs to H. W. R. Davey, Mayor of Beccles, Suffolk, relate to requests for copies of their borough seals (ff. 48-62). The remaining correspondents include Captain John Giles and Charles Hughes, Chepstow Castle, 26 January 1686/7 (ff. 1-2), Herbert Mackworth (to his wife), 1763 (ff. 3-4), [the Rev.] J[osiah] Rees, 1794 (f. 9), Wm Oldnall Russell, 1824, 1825 (ff. 40-43), [the 4th Duke of] Newcastle, Hafod [Uchtryd], 1835 (ff. 44-45), Hugh Miller, 1839 (f. 46), [Lord] Mostyn, 1855 (ff. 63-64), John C[ole] Nicholl, Merthyr Mawr, 1856-1859 (ff. 65-66, 69-70), Richard Cobden, 1856 (ff. 67-68), Thomas Purnell, [1860s] (ff. 71-76), [Henry] Brinley Richards, [?1870] (f. 77), J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, 1882 (ff. 79-80), Watkin Williams, Dol-friog, Beddgelert, 1884 (f. 81), J. F. Stephen, 1884 (f. 82), E. Lynn Linton (to Andrew Chatto), [1888] (ff. 83-84), W. Bowen Rowlands (to Sir George Lewis), [c. 1893] (f. 85), C[harles] Vaughan, dean of Llandaff, (to [?Otto] Goldschmidt), [?1890s] (ff. 87-88), [Sir] Theodore Martin (to Goldschmidt), 1896 (f. 89), F[lora] A[nnie] Steel, 1905 (f. 91), H[arold] Greenwood, Llanelly, 1919 (f. 95), Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, 1930 (f. 98), and letters sent on behalf of the Princess (ff. 93-94) and Prince (ff. 96-97) of Wales, 1909, 1921. A price list, 18 January 1956, from Edward Hall provides valuable background information on those items purchased as part of the second group (ff. i-iv).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Item: 1.1 Loose Manuscript Documents (NLW MS 16628C). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 4437754. Date: 20061101. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Loose Manuscript Documents (NLW MS 16628C) : Self adhesive tape on ff. 3-4. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Loose Manuscript Documents (NLW MS 16628C). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 4437754. Date: 20070105. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Jenkins. Status: Loose Manuscript Documents (NLW MS 16628C) : Removed tape and repaired pages. Institution: WlAbNL.
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System of arrangement
Arranged chronologically at NLW.
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Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
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Language and script notes
English.
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Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 16628C.
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Access points
Subject access points
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Name access points
- Chepstow Castle (Chepstow, Wales) (Subject)
- Hall, Edward, 1898-1985, collector. (Subject)
- Buck, J. W. (John William), -1821 (Subject)
- Davey, H. W. R. (Henry William Robert), -1870. (Subject)
- Mackworth, Herbert, 1737-1791. (Subject)
- Rees, Josiah, 1744-1804 (Subject)
- Russell, William Oldnall, Sir, 1785-1833. (Subject)
- Miller, Hugh, 1802-1856. (Subject)
- Purnell, Thomas, 1834-1889. (Subject)
- Richards, Brinley, 1819-1885. (Subject)
- Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889. (Subject)
- Stephen, James Fitzjames, 1829-1894 (Subject)
- Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn), 1822-1898. (Subject)
- Chatto, Andrew, 1841-1913. (Subject)
- Rowlands, W. Bowen (William Bowen), 1837-1906. (Subject)
- Lewis, George Henry, Sir, 1833-1911. (Subject)
- Vaughan, C. J. (Charles John), 1816-1897. (Subject)
- Goldschmidt, Otto, 1829-1907. (Subject)
- Martin, Theodore, Sir, 1816-1909. (Subject)
- Steel, Flora Annie Webster, 1847-1929. (Subject)
- Greenwood, Harold, 1874-1929. (Subject)
- Fletcher, Ifan Kyrle, 1905-1969. (Subject)
- Mostyn, Edward Mostyn Lloyd-Mostyn, Baron, 1795-1884 (Subject)
- Newcastle, Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham Clinton, Duke of, 1785-1851 (Subject)
- Cobden, Richard, 1804-1865 (Subject)
- Nicholl, John Cole, 1823-1894 (Subject)
- Buck, J. W. (John William), -1821 -- Family -- Correpondence (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH.
Status
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Dates of creation revision deletion
October 2006 and March 2015.
Language(s)
- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans, and revised by Rhys Morgan Jones;