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- 1845-1867 / (Creation)
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A scrap-book containing miscellaneous printed material including press cuttings, 1845-1867, mainly from newspapers serving the Brecon, Liverpool, and Manchester areas, relating to, inter alia, addresses, sermons, etc., delivered by the Reverend Henry Griffiths [senior tutor at the Independent Theological College, Brecon, 1842-1853, and subsequently pastor of Independent churches in Liverpool, Bowdon, near Manchester, and New Barnet]; printed copies of addresses by the said Henry Griffiths on The Importance of training teachers for the work of education, and of having a Normal School for that purpose in Wales (Brecon, 1845), and Popular Amusements (Altrincham, 1865); printed copies of the annual reports of the Welsh Educational Committee, 1845-1846, 1846-1847 (incomplete), 1847-1848, and of the Brecon Independent College, 1847-1848; etc. The initials H. G. affixed to a note at the foot of the last page may indicate that the volume was compiled by the Reverend Henry Griffiths himself.
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English.
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Finding aids
The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).
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Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 12876E.
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Name access points
- Bangor Normal College (Subject)
- Welsh Educational Committee -- Records and correspondence (Subject)
- Brecon Independent College -- Records and correspondence (Subject)
- Welsh Educational Committee. (Subject)
- Brecon Independent College (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
April 2010.
Language(s)
- English
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Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971);