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Title
Date(s)
- 1838, 1932 / (Creation)
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Extent and medium
NLW MS 23574C Extent: 576 ff. (foliated and paginated i-ii, 1-1132 with errors; pp. 7-8 misbound after p. 4) ; Dimensions: 255 x 195 mm. NLW MS 23575C Extent: 677 ff. (foliated and paginated i-ii, 1-1349) ; Dimensions: 250 x 195 mm. NLW MS 23574C :Half-bound in morocco and marbled boards. NLW MS 23575C :Half-bound in cloth and plain boards.
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Maggs Bros Ltd; London; Purchase; February 1997; B1997/10.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Volumes containing the printer's copy, apparently made in 1838, of Memoirs of the Early Life and Service of a Field Officer on the Retired List of the Indian Army (London, 1839), being an autobiographical account of the military career in India of Major David Price, Watton, Breconshire, orientalist, to which the editor, Major Edward Moor, has appended a short account of Price's life from the time of his return to Wales in 1806 until his death (NLW MS 23575C, pp. 1325-40), a transcript of the memorial inscription to him in the Priory Church, Brecon (NLW MS 23575C, pp. 1341-2), and a list of errata (NLW MS 23575C, pp. 1343-7); another contemporary copy of the memorial is tipped in on NLW MS 23575C, f. ii. Corrections, emendations and notes by the editor together with notes by the compositor, including details of the print run (NLW MS 23574C, p. 1), are found throughout both volumes. Many passages have been deleted and do not appear in the printed version. Annotations also occur in the hand of Gerard Dyke and include another transcript of the memorial (NLW MS 23574C, f. ii) made by him in 1932.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
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Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions noted on the 'Modern papers - data protection' form issued with their readers' tickets.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
The contents are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003).
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Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MSS 23574-5C.
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Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Great Britain. Army. Indian Army. (Subject)
- Brecon Cathedral (Brecon, Wales) (Subject)
- Moor, Edward, 1771-1848. (Subject)
- Dyke, Gerard. (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Status
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Dates of creation revision deletion
May 2009.
Language(s)
- English
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Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS;