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Title
Date(s)
- [c. 1894]. (Creation)
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Extent and medium
86 ff. (many blank leaves) ; 320 x 200 mm. Cloth and marbled paper over boards.
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Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
David Harbourne; Cardiff; Purchase; 1983
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Scope and content
Copies of engineers' reports, valuations, and accounts, 1856-1893, mainly by Samuel Dobson, Pontypridd, Thomas Evans and William Thomas, Aberdâr, and Morgan W. Davies, Swansea, relating to Clydach Vale, Dan-y-deri, Dinas, Foxhole, and Pwllmawr collieries, Glamorganshire, the Murton colliery, co. Durham, the Monkstone manganese mines, Devonshire, and the Aspeich copper mines, southern France. A printed prospectus, 1889, of shares in Richard Evans & Co. Ltd, Haydock Collieries, near St Helens, is pasted inside the back cover.
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Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
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Finding aids
The contents of NLW MSS 21701-22852 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 8 (Aberystwyth, 1999).
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Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 21960D.
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Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Richard Evans & Co. Ltd. (Subject)
- Murton Colliery (England) (Subject)
- Monkstone Manganese Mine (England) (Subject)
- Aspeich Copper Mines (France) (Subject)
- Haydock Collieries (Wales) (Subject)
- Davies, Morgan W. (Subject)
- Dobson, Samuel. (Subject)
- Evans, Thomas, engineer (Subject)
- Thomas, William, engineer (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH.
Status
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Language(s)
- English