File NLW MS 16582i-viiiC. - Tour journals

Identity area

Reference code

NLW MS 16582i-viiiC.

Title

Tour journals

Date(s)

  • 1841-1843 (Creation)

Level of description

File

Extent and medium

265 ff. with insertions (8 volumes foliated in one sequence; ff. 164-170, 221-241, 260-265 blank) ; 250 x 205 mm. and less.

Eight notebooks, paper covers.

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Mr Geoffrey Bright; Leominster; Donation (with NLW MSS 16583-4); October 1955.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Eight notebooks containing journals, 1841-1843, kept by (Lady) Marianne Lewis, of tours on the Continent and in South Wales, in the company of her husband (Sir) Thomas Frankland Lewis of Harpton Court.
The journals contain accounts of their tour of France and Germany, 28 April-7 June 1841 (16582iC, ff. 1-20); Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 9 June-29 August 1841 (16582iiC, ff. 21-73); Italy (mainly Rome and Naples), 30 August 1841-[19] January 1842 (16582iiiC, ff. 74-128), 20 January-10 March 1842 (16582ivC, ff. 129-148), 11 March-10 April 1842 (16582vC, ff. 149-163), and, 12 April-27 May 1842 (16582viC, ff. 171-194 verso); and Germany and Belgium, 31 May-10 July 1842 (16582viiC, ff. 195-220); followed by a tour of South Wales, 16 October-30 December 1843, where she accompanied her husband and other members of the Commission of Inquiry into the Rebecca Riots (16582viiiC, ff. 242-259 verso).

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Arranged chronologically at NLW.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Conditions governing reproduction

Usual copyright laws apply.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Language and script notes

English.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

One leaf cut out between ff. 199 and 200.

Finding aids

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Existence and location of originals

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Text

Related units of description

Journals of later tours are NLW MS 16583i-ixC; for other papers of Marianne Lewis see NLW, Harpton Court Estate Records, in particular 2710-2733 (diaries) and 3698 (details of another continental visit in 1841).

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Note

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Note

Preferred citation: NLW MS 16582i-viiiC.

Alternative identifier(s)

Virtua system control number

vtls004437729

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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

September 2006 and January 2015.

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

Sources

Archivist's note

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans, and revised by Rhys Morgan Jones;

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Physical storage

  • Text: NLW MS 16582C; $q - One leaf cut out between ff. 199 and 200.