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Title
Date(s)
- 1828-1863 / (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
i, 151 ff. (many blank leaves; several leaves cut out) ; 250 x 200 mm. Vellum over boards; rebacked at NLW.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gellimanwydd Welsh Congregational church; Ammanford; Donation; 1983
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A minute-book of the Llandeilo Fawr, Carmarthenshire, British and Foreign Bible Society Auxiliary, formed in 1828, recording resolutions, 1828-1829 (ff. 9-13) and attendances of committee members (ff. 3 verso-4, 9). The volume was used, [c. 1839]-1856, as a notebook by the branch secretary, the Reverend Rees Powell, Onnen-fawr, Llandeilo Fawr, and contains draft letters mainly addressed to his sons John and Rees, Congregationalist ministers in Ohio; household, farm and personal accounts; a record of preaching and other engagements; and other miscellaneous notes and memoranda.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
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Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
- Welsh
Script of material
Language and script notes
English, Welsh.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
The contents of NLW MSS 21701-22852 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 8 (Aberystwyth, 1999).
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Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 21975C.
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Access points
Subject access points
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Name access points
- British and Foreign Bible Society. Llandeilo Fawr -- Records and correspondence (Subject)
- Powell, John, Rev., Ohio (Subject)
- Powell, Rees, Rev. (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH.
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Language(s)
- English