Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [18 cent.]-[1876] (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
6 volumes.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Richard Humphrey Richards was professor of Welsh at St David's College, Lampeter, from 1916 to 1941.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Richard Humphrey Richards; Lampeter; Donation; 1935.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Papers, [18 cent.]-[1876], from the library of Professor Richard Humphrey Richards, including a manuscript of John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), Llyfr Tonau Cynnulleidfaol (Wrexham: Hughes, 1876), Ieuan Gwyllt's manuscript of a proposed English hymnal, and correspondence, 1860-1874, and notes of Ieuan Gwyllt; sermon notes, 1731-1763; and an eighteenth-century commonplace book.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 9913-9918.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
- Welsh
Script of material
Language and script notes
Welsh, English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961), pp. 179-180.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Formerly R. H. Richards MSS 1-6.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MSS 9913-9918.
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Richards, Richard Humphrey -- Archives (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
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
July 2008 and May 2011.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961), Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940 (Llundain, 1953).
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifan for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS, and revised by Bethan Ifan.