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Title
Date(s)
- 1796-1815 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 small box.
E5/2: 16 ff.; E5/16: 32 ff.; E5/17: 42 ff. (some folios blank); E5/19: 14 ff.
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Scope and content
Twenty-eight notebooks and bundles, 1796-1815, consisting of travel journals and agricultural notes relating mainly to Iolo Morganwg's work for the Board of Agriculture in Glamorgan and Carmarthenshire in 1796 and his contribution to Gwallter Mechain's General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of South Wales (London, 1815).
Also included are fragments of tours in parts of England (E5/13); a journal of his tour to North Wales in 1799, collecting materials for the Myvyrian Archaiology (E5/18, formerly 'IAW 144'); bundles of loose agricultural notes (E5/26-27); and geological notes relating to Glamorgan (E5/28).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged broadly chronologically at NLW.
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Language of material
- English
- Welsh
Script of material
Language and script notes
English, Welsh.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Mainly written in pencil, some of which is illegible.
E5/10, 16-17, 19 previously very fragile; repaired at NLW, 2017, with some loss of text.
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Note
Title based on contents.
Note
E5/18: Formerly IAW 144.
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Iolo Morganwg, 1747-1826 -- Diaries. (Subject)
- Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) (Subject)
- Davies, Walter, 1761-1849 (Subject)
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Language(s)
- English