Transcripts of letters to Joseph Tarn, etc.,
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Bishops -- Wales -- Correspondence
Bishops -- England -- Hereford -- Correspondence
Bible. Welsh
Revivals -- Wales -- Bala
Education, Elementary -- Ireland.
Education, Elementary -- Scotland.
British and Foreign Bible Society -- Records and correspondence
British and Foreign Bible Society
Tarn, Joseph -- Correspondence
Charles, Thomas, 1755-1814 -- Biography
Richmond, Legh, 1772-1827
Richmond, Legh, 1772-1827 -- Translations into Welsh
Tarn, Joseph
Gaskin, George, 1751-1829.
Owen, John, British and Foreign Bible Society
Seeley, L. B. (Leonard Benton), 1766-1834
Clarke, Adam, ca. 1762-1832
Davies, Gabriel, Bala
Anderson, Christopher, 1782-1852.
Davies, John, 1781-1848
Evans, Timothy, Rev.
Dealtry, William, 1775-1847.
Elias, John, 1774-1841
Evans, Evan, Shacklewell, London
Jones, David, 1736-1810
Hughes, Joseph, Ruthin
Johnston, David, 1734-1824
Jones, David, Rev., Holywell
Jones, John, Bala
Lloyd, Simon, 1756-1836
Parry, John, 1775-1846
Jones, Owen, 1787-1828
Jones, Samuel, Rev., Kildimo, Limerick
Jones, Thomas, 1756-1820
Lloyd, Edmund, Cefnfaes, Maentwrog
Owen, Richard, Caernarfon
Roberts, John, Rev., Tremeirchion
Saunderson, Robert, 1780-1863
Thomas, John, Lodge, Llanidloes
Teignmouth, John Shore, Baron, 1751-1834
Trego, James
Walker, John, Chester
Six note-books containing transcripts of, or extracts from, one hundred and eighteen letters, 1804-1821 and undated, being mainly (from the actual addresses or by inference) letters to Joseph Tarn, assistant secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Other recipients include [Dr.] Geo[ rge] Gaskin [secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge] ( 1), the Reverend [John] Owen [joint home secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society], Fulham (1), L. B. Seeley, bookseller, London (1), and the Welsh bishops and the bishop of Hereford (circular). The writers include [the Reverend] Christopher Anderson [Baptist minister], Edinburgh, A. Clarke [? the Reverend Adam Clarke, Wesleyan preacher], Gabriel Davies, Bala, John Davies, Vronhaulog, near Bala or Corwen, [the Reverend] W[ illiam] Dealtry [aft. archdeacon of Surrey], Hertford, [the Reverend] John Elias ['o Fôn'], from Wilderness Row [London], E[van] Evans, Shacklewell, [the Reverend] Timothy Evans [vicar of Llanbadarn Trefeglwys], Jos. Hughes, Ruthin, the Reverend David Johnston, Edinburgh (circular), the Reverend D[ avid] Jones, Holywell,. D. Jones, [? the Reverend David Jones, vicar of] Langan, John Jones, Bala, Owen Jones, Gelly, near Llanfair [Caereinion], [ the Reverend] Sam[ue]l Jones [of Kildimo, Limerick], from Holborn [London ], [the Reverend] Tho[ma]s Jones [C.M. minister], Denbigh, Edmund Lloyd, Cefnfaes, Maentwrog, [the Reverend] S[imon] Lloyd [Methodist cleric], Bala, Richard Owen [Caernarvon], John Parry, Chester, [the Reverend] John Roberts, [vicar of] Tremeirchion, Rob[er]t Saunderson, Bala, L. B. Seeley, Fleet Street [London], [John Shore, 1st baron] Teignmouth [president of the British and Foreign Bible Society], Portman Square [London], John Thomas, Lodge, [ the Reverend] James Trego, Boughton, Chester, and John Walker, Chester. The letters deal mainly with the publication and distribution of Welsh Bibles and Testaments by the British and Foreign Bible Society, the activities of local branches of the Society set up in some of the counties of North Wales, and the collecting of contributions from these local branches for transmitting to the parent Society in London. Other topics referred to include a religious revival in the Bala area (No. 61 of 1818), elementary education in parts of Ireland (No. 64 of 1809) and Scotland (Nos. 65-8 of 1810-1811), a memoir of the Reverend Thomas Charles being prepared by the Reverend Thomas Jones of Denbigh (Nos. 84-5 of 1815), the Bible Society's intention of setting up a stereotype printing office in Russia (No. 88 of 1814), the publishing of Welsh versions of the Reverend Legh Richmond's tracts The Negro Servant and The Dairyman's Daughter, and of his tract relating to little Jane [i.e., The Young Cottager] (No. 95 of 1821), etc. Copies of, or extracts from, many of the above letters appear in D. E. Jenkins: The Life of the Rev. Thomas Charles . . .
The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).
Title based on contents.
Formerly known as D. E. Jenkins 46.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 12776B.
[1901x1937].
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