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A journal ('Notes') of a three weeks' tour by Horace Francis, beginning on 24 June, 1837, from London to Worcester, Malvern, Ledbury, Ross, Goodrich Court, Monmouth, Chepstow, Llandogo, Tintern Abbey, Newport, Cardiff, Pyle, Margam House, Neath, Llandilo, Lampeter, Aberaeron, Aberystwith, Devil's Bridge, Machynlleth, Dolgelley, Cader Idris, Rhiadyr Du (Rheadr Du), Maentwrog, Tan y Bwlch, Pont Aberglaslyn, Beddgelert, Dinas Emrys, Nant Gwynant, Llanberis Pass, Snowdon, Llanberis (visits to Falls, Dolbadarn Tower, Slate Quarry, and Copper Mine), Caernarvon, Bangor, Penrhyn Castle, Penmaen Mawr, Aber Conway [Conway], Llanrwst, Bettws y Coed, Pont ar Voelas [Pentrefoelas], Corwen, Llangollen (visits to Castle Dinas Bran, Valle Crucis Abbey, and Plas Newydd), Chirk, Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Birmingham, Warwick, Kenilworth, and Leamington. NLW MS 11596B has a pen-and-ink drawing of Devil's Bridge as frontispiece, and NLW MS 11597B a similar drawing of Llanberis Lake.

An illustrated 'Journal of a very short Walking Tour in North Wales', 23 July-1 August 1853, by Walker Baily, Champion Park, Denmark Hill, London. The tour comprised Shrewsbury, Llangollen, Valle Crucis Abbey, Corwen, Cerrig-y-Druidion, Bettwys[sic]-y-Coed, Llanrwst, Conway, Bangor, Carnarvon, Llanberis, Pen-y-Gwryd, and Chester. The illustrations, largely in the form of mounted line engravings, are of Chirk Aqueduct and Viaduct; Dee Viaduct, Shrewsbury and Chester Railway; Llangollen Bridge; Llangollen and Bridge; Phillips's Hand Hotel and Posting House, Llangollen; Valle Crucis Abbey; Pont-y-Glyn, Cerrig-y-Druidion; Conway Falls; Bettws-y-Coed and Pont-y-Pair; Waterfall of the Swallow [Betws-y-Coed]; Llanrwst Bridge; Chapel in Gwydir Woods; Vale of Llanrwst; Great Ormes Head; Conway Tubular Bridge and Castle; Conway Town, Castle, and Tube; Penmaen Mawr, Aber; Penrhyn Castle; British Hotel, Bangor; Bangor; Bangor Cathedral Church; Menai Suspension Bridge; Britannia Tubular and Menai Suspension Bridges; The Britannia Tubular Bridge-Entrance from the Bangor side; Nant Francon; Fall of the Ogwen, Nant Francon; Welsh Costumes (2); Market Scene, North Wales; Castle Square, Carnarvon; Eagle Tower, Carnarvon Castle; W. Mathew [Hotel], At the foot of Snowdon; Llanberis Lakes and Dolbadarn Castle; The Summit of Snowdon from the Llanberis Ascent; Capel Curig; Beddgelert (2); Pont Aberglaslyn; Tremadoc; Caenant [Ceunant] Mawr, near Llanberis; Rhyl; View from Llangollen Bridge; Swallow Waterfall; Snowdon from Capel Curig Hotel; Snowdon and Llanberis Lakes; and Llanberis and Snowdon. The text also includes a list of the writer's daily expenses, and a few original vignettes and pictorial and decorative capital letters. At the end are two road maps entitled respectively 'River Wye (Ross to Monmouth)' and 'River Wye (Monmouth to Chepstow)' and a printed folded map of North Wales. The letters 'W. B.' are inscribed in gold on the upper cover.

A folder containing 'Notes to Wild Wales', being an illustrated account of a tour, 1869, comprising Wrexham, Llangollen, Eliseg Pillar, Valle Crucis Abbey, Dinas Bran, Corwen, and Snowdonia.

A journal of a tour made in 1788 from London to South Wales. The volume is in the same hand as NLW MS 11492B.

Recollections of a tour in North Wales by Elizabeth-Mary Danks of Lickhill, Kidderminster, September 1840, and memorandum of a trip to Paris by her, August 1855. A transcript of the tour to North Wales is also included in typescript.

A journal of a return tour made from London in 1787 to the West of England, Chepstow, Tintern Abbey, Monmouth, Hereford, Birmingham, Warwick, Stratford-upon-Avon, Banbury, Amersham, etc.

A journal of a tour made in 1790 of the North of England, including the Lake District. At the end of the volume are particulars of disbursements and of intermediate distances, etc. The volume is in the same hand as NLW MSS 11492-11493B.

A volume of mounted cuttings from The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, 31 August - 28 December, 1861, together with copious manuscript additions and corrections, containing a 'Diary of my second Continental Tour', undertaken by D. J. E. from B[ristol] between 9 June and 4 August, 1860. The tour comprised parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Journal of a visit to the Goodwick and Fishguard neighbourhood in July 1835, illustrated with pencil and water-colour sketches. English. Leather back. Donated by Mrs Dorothy Harris, Lampeter, January 1966.

A manuscript journal, 20 December 1863-10 February 1864 (watermarks 1843, 1844), of a voyage by John Griffith, [of Bangor, Caernarvonshire,] from Gravesend to New Zealand on board the sailing ship The Indian Empire, describing the crew and passengers, the accommodation and rations and daily life on board.
The volume consists of sheets of lined paper, folded in half and stab-stitched together using tarred twine; the text is written lengthways down the page. Griffith describes the 'Dead Horse' ceremony, marking one month at sea (pp. 56-61), the publication, by him, of the first issue of the 'Atlantic Telegraph', a newspaper for the passengers and crew (pp. 62-63, 65), and his twenty-first birthday on the 5 February 1864 (pp. 64, 72); the volume also includes a plan of the cabin in which Griffith was accommodated (pp. 1-2). The Sotheby's and Charles Miller auction catalogues both assert that John Griffith was one of several passengers to have died from scarlet fever during the voyage, hence the abrupt ending of the journal on 10 February, some six weeks before reaching New Zealand; Griffith himself records the death of a passenger on 26 January (p. 61). However, contemporary newspaper reports of The Indian Empire's arrival in Port Lyttelton, Canterbury Province, on 23 March 1864, list a 'Griffiths' amongst the passengers in the second cabin, rather than as one of the passengers to have died on the passage (see for instance 'Shipping Intelligence', Lyttelton Times, 26 March 1864, p. 4). The actual fate of John Griffith is therefore uncertain.

Journal of a voyage to Shanghai and activities afterwards by ?R. W. Williams. English. Between boards. Purchased from Commander H. B. Stewart, c/o Messrs C. E. Williams & Co., Oswestry, 1968.

Journal, 1904-23, of Arthur Bevan, Roath Park, Cardiff, recording sea voyages on cargo ships to South America, Italy, South Africa, Australia and Canada.

Journal, late 19th cent.
Journal of a cycling tour of the Forest of Dean and part of co. Monmouth, illustrated with original water-colour sketches and photographs. A printed advert, c. 1893, promoting the 'New Howe Road Racer', endorsed with a note, 1894, on the Old Gate House Tavern, Highgate Hill, found loose inside the volume, has been tipped in at the end.

Journal of David Vaughan, Bonvilstone. See also NLW MS 20150C. English. Leather. Purchased from H. N. Colvin, St John's College, Cambridge, November 1969.

A photostat facsimile of a manuscript of the journal of George Fox, Quaker.

Journal of Iltyd Bond Nicholl. (Formerly Llanmaes MS 86.) English. Boards. Purchased from E. P. W. Nicholl, Llanmaes House, Glamorganshire, 1939-1940.

The journal of Richard Henry Mostyn Price. English.

Journal of T. J. Evans, Carmarthen. English. Donated by the late T. J. Evans, Esq., M.B.E., Clunderwen, February 1966. Not to be made available until 2016.