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Date(s)
- 1830 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
i, 91 ff. (5-10 verso blank) ; 160 x 95 mm.
Brown leather covers with blind tooling and brass clasp; marbled page edges.
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Archival history
Previously sold at auction by Dominic Winter Auctions, South Cerney, 25 January 2017 (lot 319).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Liss Books; Liss, Hampshire; Purchase; December 2018; 99896339002419.
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Scope and content
Journal, 1830 (watermark [18]28), of a tour primarily of Pembrokeshire, the Lake District and Edinburgh by an un-named Cornishman, in the company of his niece Anne Kendall of Lostwithiel.
The volume begins with a retrospective recounting of the journey from Lostwithiel, Cornwall, to Bath, Somerset, 5-29 [recte 10] April 1830 (ff. 1-4 verso). The journal proper begins in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, on 7 July (f. 11) and continues with excursions and tours to Pembroke, Haverfordwest, Solva, St Davids and elsewhere within the county, 7-26 July (ff. 11-62 verso), followed by the journey through parts of mid and north Wales and north west England, 27 July-5 August (ff. 63-65 verso), the Lake District, 5-8 August (ff. 65 verso-70), and the Southern Uplands of Scotland, 9-12 August (ff. 71-76), ending in Edinburgh and its environs, 12-30 August (ff. 76-91 verso). The journal includes descriptions of the Stackpole, Orielton, Slebech and Picton Castle estates (ff. 14-15 verso, 19-20, 22-23, 25 recto-verso, 26-27 verso), St Mary's Church, Haverfordwest (ff. 29 verso-33), and the Bishop's Palace and Cathedral at St Davids (ff. 42 verso-50) and an eyewitness account of the launch of the frigate HMS Seahorse at Pembroke on 21 July (ff. 57 verso-58 verso). The writer is presumably one of Anne Kendall's four uncles then living, namely the Rev. Francis John Hext (1779-1842), Captain William Hext (1780-1866), James Cotes Kendall (1770-1836) or the Rev. Nicholas Kendall (1781-1844).
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Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- English
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English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Covers rubbed.
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Note
Title based on contents.
Note
'Samuel Hext (Winner of Gold Peninsular Medal with clasps for Badajoz & another)' (note, [20 cent., second ½], in ballpoint pen on f. i) [Samuel Hext died in 1822, so is not the writer of the journal].
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- St. Mary's (Church : Haverfordwest, Wales) (Subject)
- Saint Davids Bishop's Palace (St. David's, Wales) (Subject)
- Seahorse (Ship : 1830-1870) (Subject)
- Kendall, Anne, 1799-1835 (Subject)
- St. Davids Cathedral (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
August 2019.
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Rhys Jones.