File NLW MS 10897D. - Printing accounts,

Identity area

Reference code

NLW MS 10897D.

Title

Printing accounts,

Date(s)

  • 1856-1885. (Creation)

Level of description

File

Extent and medium

Context area

Name of creator

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Donated by Mr Morris T. Williams, Denbigh, January 1937.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

An account book of work done in the printing office of Messrs. Gee & Son, Denbigh, covering (with gaps) the period 1856-1876. The volume was subsequently used as a scrapbook, and contains printed reports and statements of the North Denbighshire Permanent Building Society ('Cymdeithas Adeiladu Barhaol Gogleddbarth Sir Ddinbych'), 1875-1877, 1881-1885, a printed list of sermons preached at the Calvinistic Methodist Quarterly Assembly at Denbigh, 17-20 June, 1879, and numerous press cuttings relating to the parliamentary election of 1868, the trial of the Tichborne claimant, 1868, political speeches of John Bright, M.P., etc.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Conditions governing reproduction

Language of material

  • English
  • Welsh

Script of material

Language and script notes

English, Welsh.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Finding aids

The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part XIX, 266.

Allied materials area

Existence and location of originals

Existence and location of copies

Related units of description

See also NLW MSS 12138-121361 (the Morris T. Williams papers), which largely contain business records of Gee & Son, Denbigh.

Related descriptions

Notes area

Note

Title based on contents.

Note

Preferred citation: NLW MS 10897D.

Alternative identifier(s)

Virtua system control number

vtls004586160

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Description identifier

Institution identifier

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

Rules and/or conventions used

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

Status

Level of detail

Dates of creation revision deletion

November 2008.

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

Sources

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 Manuscipts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961); Oxford Dictionary of National Biography on-line;

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