File NLW MS 10746E. - Report on Welsh colony in Patagonia,

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NLW MS 10746E.

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Report on Welsh colony in Patagonia,

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  • 1898-1902. (Creation)

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A typescript copy of a report on the Welsh colony in the Chubut Valley, Patagonia, prepared by the Reverend David Powell Richards, M.A., chaplain in the Royal Navy, and addressed by him from H.M.S. Flora, at Monte Video, 8 April, 1901, to the Hon. Sir William A. C. Barrington, K.C.M.G., H. M. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Buenos Aires. Accompanying the report are numerous appendices and insets, including a typescript statement of authorities as to the boundaries of Argentine; typescript extracts from The Review of the River Plate, 8 September, 1900, and Y Drafod, 9 November, 1900, touching the results of recent municipal elections in Chubut; a typescript copy of a letter, 4 July 1900, from R. Groome, commodore, H.M.S. Flora, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, reporting on his visit to the Welsh colony; manuscript copies of a letter, 29 August, 1901, from Hy. Vansittart Neale, Admiralty, to A. K. Wilson, Vice-Admiral Commanding, Channel Squadron, and a letter, 11 September, 1901, from H. D. Barry, Captain, H.M.S. Mars, at Lagos, to Vice-Admiral A. K. Wilson, touching arrangements for an interview between the Reverend D. P. Richards and the High Commissioner for Canada; draft minutes of a general meeting of Welsh settlers at Gaiman Chapel, 22 August, 1898, and of the first and second meetings of the National Council Committee appointed by the general meeting, 30 August - 7 October, 1898; a manuscript copy of a letter from the Welsh settlers to the British Minister in Buenos Aires, 18 June, 1900, protesting against their arrests by the Argentine authorities; and a manuscript copy of a letter, 5 March, 1902, from [D. P. Richards] from H.M.S. Mars, Channel Squadron, at Tetuan, touching the proposal for the restoration of the colony to British territory; and press cuttings.

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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 XIX, 241-2.

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Preferred citation: NLW MS 10746E.

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vtls004574739

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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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October 2008.

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  • English

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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; thePeerage.com; www.npg.org.uk;

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