File NLW MS 24097B - Tours of England and Wales

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Reference code

NLW MS 24097B

Title

Tours of England and Wales

Date(s)

  • 1835-1837 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

i, 100 ff. (original pagination 1-32 continued to end; pp. 107-168, 173-180 blank) ; 180 x 110 mm.

'Harwood's Memorandum Book containing an Almanack for 1835', original straight-grained green roan over boards.

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Name of creator

Biographical history

Archival history

Book-plate of Francis Hubert Barclay (inside front cover); 'F. H. Barclay from JGB 1890' (pencil on end flyleaf, inverted text) [Francis Hubert Barclay (1869-1935) was Joseph's son].

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Mr Simon Luterbacher, Liss Books; Liss; Purchase; June 2016; 99653096002419.

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Scope and content

Tour journal, 1835-1837, of Joseph Gurney Barclay, banker and astronomer, containing accounts of tours of parts of England, 1836, and of North Wales, 1837.
The English tour, 16 March-7 April 1836 (pp. 1-33), consists of Barclay's journey from London, via Matlock and Wakefield, to Darlington, mostly in the company of his second cousin Samuel Gurney, mainly to visit members of their extended, interlinked families of fellow Quaker bankers and philanthropists, the Leatham family in Wakefield, including the brothers William Henry and [John] Arthington Leatham (pp. 14-24), and the Backhouse and Pease families in Darlington, notably Jonathan Backhouse and Joseph Pease, MP (pp. 26-31). On the Welsh tour, 26 [recte 25] July-[9] August 1837 (pp. 33-106), Barclay travelled with his father and four sisters in a Britzka from London to Gloucestershire, explored the lower Wye Valley (pp. 45-47), then journeyed north via Brecon, Rhayader, Aberystwyth, Machynlleth, Dolgellau, Harlech, Tremadog, Llanberis, Bangor and Beaumaris, ending in Conway (pp. 103-106). Barclay describes the scenery of Matlock, Derbyshire (pp. 6-9); a visit to the naturalist and explorer Charles Waterton at Walton Hall, Wakefield (pp. 16-19); a railway journey from Darlington to Middlesbrough with his uncle, Joseph Pease (pp. 29-30); a visit to Devil's Bridge, Cardiganshire (pp. 53-57); the ascent of Cader Idris (pp. 61-69) and an excursion to see waterfalls on the River Mawddach (pp. 70-77), both in the company of local guide Robert Pugh; and the ascent of Snowdon (pp. 93-97). Also included is a short account of the wildlife of Wales, as described to him by Robert Pugh (pp. 169-172). A small pen and ink sketch of the summit of Snowdon is on p. 95. An almanac for 1835 is bound into the volume (pp. 181-196, inverted text).

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Language of material

  • English

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English.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Leaves removed after pp. 34 (4), 88 and 180 (2).

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99653096002419

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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

June 2017.

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Archivist's note

Description compiled by Rhys M. Jones.

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