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Elizabeth Baker Papers, (GB 0210 ELIKER) Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Cymorth chwilio | Finding Aid - Elizabeth Baker Papers, (GB 0210 ELIKER) Cynhyrchir gan Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.0 Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.0 Argraffwyd: Mai 05, 2017 Printed: May 05, 2017 Wrth lunio'r disgrifiad hwn dilynwyd canllawiau ANW a seiliwyd ar ISAD(G) Ail Argraffiad; rheolau AACR2; ac LCSH Description follows ANW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH https://archifau.llyfrgell.cymru/index.php/elizabeth-baker-papers-2 archives.library .wales/index.php/elizabeth-baker-papers-2 Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Allt Penglais Aberystwyth Ceredigion United Kingdom SY23 3BU 01970 632 800 01970 615 709 [email protected] www.llgc.org.uk Elizabeth Baker Papers, Tabl cynnwys | Table of contents Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information .............................................................................................. 3 Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch ......................... 3 Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content .......................................................................................................... 4 Trefniant | Arrangement .................................................................................................................................. 4 Nodiadau | Notes ............................................................................................................................................. 4 Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points ............................................................................................................... 5 Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions ............................................................................................................ 5 - Tudalen | Page 2 - GB 0210 ELIKER Elizabeth Baker Papers, Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information Lleoliad | Repository: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Teitl | Title: Elizabeth Baker Papers, ID: GB 0210 ELIKER Virtua system control vtls003844026 number [alternative]: Project identifier ANW [alternative]: Dyddiad | Date: 1740-1798 / (dyddiad creu | date of creation) Disgrifiad ffisegol | 0.018 cubic metres (2 boxes) Physical description: Lleoliad ffisegol | ARCH/MSS (GB0210) Physical location: Dyddiadau creu, golygu a dileu | Dates of creation, revision and deletion: Nodyn | Note Title based on contents of fonds. [generalNote]: Nodyn | Note The Dictionary of Welsh Biography gives Baker's date of death as [generalNote]: 1789; the NLW cataloguer notes that this must be incorrect, since her letters in Peniarth MS 501 continue to 1797, and suggests that the Elizabeth Baker buried in Dolgellau in 1799 may be the same individual. Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch Nodyn | Note Elizabeth Baker ([c. 1720]-1799) was the daughter of a clergyman in the Midlands; she lived at one point in Coventry, Warwickshire. Her later life was spent in Merionethshire, in and around the parish of Llanegryn. In 1770, she was a partner in prospecting for metal ores in the area between Dolgellau and Llanuwchllyn, which proved unsuccessful; a lawsuit concerning the partnership later arose. She later lived at the houses of Hengwrt (1771-1778) (as secretary to Hugh Vaughan), Doluwcheogryd (until 1780), and Bryn Adda (until 1784), after which she remained in Dolgellau until her death in 1799. She kept a series Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 3 GB 0210 ELIKER Elizabeth Baker Papers, of diaries, reflecting the difficulties faced by the Hengwrt house and estate, and collected and transcribed contemporary verses. She also attempted to breed silk worms. Hanes Gwarchodol | Custodial history It appears that the papers of Elizabeth Baker were acquired by the Victorian antiquarian W. W. E. Wynne, Peniarth. Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content Papers of Elizabeth Baker, 1740-1798, comprising correspondence, 1743-1798; copies of verses, including some relating to the impeachment of Warren Hastings; correspondence relating to legal matters arising from the mining partnership and the ownership of the Nannau estate, 1779-1781; journals relating to silk worms, 1779-1782; and papers concerning politics, literature, and current events, 1740-1798. Nodiadau | Notes Nodiadau teitl | Title notes Ffynhonnell | Immediate source of acquisition Deposited with the Peniarth Estate Records in 1954-1956, and subsequently purchased in 1980. Trefniant | Arrangement Arranged as follows: verse of general interest, Simpkin and Simon and other political verse; printed papers; legal papers, etc.; letters to Mrs Baker; miscellaneous letters and copy letters; papers of Welsh interest; prose extracts; and miscellaneous papers, accounts of trials, inscriptions and anecdotes. Amodau rheoli defnydd | Conditions governing use Usual copyright laws apply. Rhestrau cymorth | Finding aids A hard copy of the catalogue is available at the National Library of Wales. Disgrifiadau deunydd | Related material See also NLW, Peniarth MSS 307, 377, 416, 418, 485, 501. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 4 GB 0210 ELIKER Elizabeth Baker Papers, Ychwanegiadau | Accruals Accruals are not expected. Nodiadau eraill | Other notes • Statws cyhoeddiad | Publication status: Published • Dynodwr sefydliad | Institution identifier: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points • Baker, Elizabeth, ca. 1720-1799 -- Archives. (pwnc) | (subject) • Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818 -- Poetry. (pwnc) | (subject) • Gentry -- Wales -- Gwynedd. (pwnc) | (subject) • English poetry -- 18th century. (pwnc) | (subject) • Women -- Wales -- Diaries. (pwnc) | (subject) • Sericulture -- Wales -- Dolgellau. (pwnc) | (subject) • Silkworms -- Wales -- Dolgellau. (pwnc) | (subject) • Wales -- Politics and government -- 18th century. (pwnc) | (subject) • Women -- Wales -- Dolgellau -- Diaries. (pwnc) | (subject) • Merioneth (Wales) (pwnc) | (subject) • Dolgellau (Wales) (pwnc) | (subject) • Llanegryn (Wales) (pwnc) | (subject) Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions Cod cyfeirnod | Ref Teitl | Title Dyddiadau | Statws mynediad | Cynhwysydd | code Dates Access status Container 1-138. vtls005189817 Otherlevel - Verse of general interest, 1630, 1-138. ISYSARCHB10 1743-1798. Cyfres | Series 1-25. vtls005189818 ISYSARCHB10: Verse of general interest, Dyddiad | Date: 1743-1798. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation) Lleoliad ffisegol | Physical location: ARCH/MSS (GB0210) Nodyn | Note: Preferred citation: 1-25. Ffeil / rhestr eitemau | File / item list Cod cyfeirnod | Ref Teitl | Title Dyddiadau | Statws mynediad | Cynhwysydd | code Dates Access status Container Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 5 GB 0210 ELIKER Elizabeth Baker Papers, 1. vtls005189819 File - A poem 'On the Lord Bishop of 1. ISYSARCHB10 Landaff's Apology for the Bible'. 2. vtls005189820 File - A song by John Hughes to the tune 2. ISYSARCHB10 of 'Tragic Lay of one horse Chay'. 3. vtls005189821 File - A poem: 'Oh: beware how you 1787. 3. ISYSARCHB10 tread this Green', 4. vtls005189822 File - 'The Viper. A New Song. By the 4. ISYSARCHB10 B-sh-p of B-ng-r. To the tune of Hark, Hark, Jolly Sportsmen'. 5. vtls005189823 File - A poem by P. Williams: 'On 5. ISYSARCHB10 Fishing'. 6. vtls005189824 File - 'Moelfryn Cantata. 12 August 1761. 6. ISYSARCHB10 1761', 7. vtls005189825 File - 'Verses written by Sir Charles 1743. 7. ISYSARCHB10 Hanbury Williams in June 1743', 8. vtls005189826 File - A poem: 'On the Birth Day of 1790. 8. ISYSARCHB10 Edward Williames Vaughan Salesbury, Esquire, May 28 1790, when he compleated his 21st ..., 9. vtls005189827 File - A poem: 'The Genius of Hafod. 9. ISYSARCHB10 Written on a sequestered seat at Hafod, the Villa of Thomas Johnes, Esq. In .... 10. vtls005189828 File - A poem: 'Captain Nanney's 1789. 10. ISYSARCHB10 celebrated Soliloquy on the family's departure from Nannau 1789', 11. vtls005189829 File - A poem: 'Miss B ..r vindicated. The 1752. 11. ISYSARCHB10 author the Rev. Mr Edwards, 1752', 12. vtls005189830 File - An election song for the supporters 12. ISYSARCHB10 of Vaughan of Nannau. 13. vtls005189831 File - A poem copied from The World, 3 1790. 13. ISYSARCHB10 July 1790: 'Invocation to Fancy', 14. vtls005189832 File - (A) A stanza by R.D. entitled 'A 1798. 14. ISYSARCHB10 Title for Admiral Nelson', 15. vtls005189833 File - (A) A poem by John Rotherham, 15. ISYSARCHB10 AM: 'Farthing Giles'. 16. vtls005189834 File - A poem: 'Archery'. 16. ISYSARCHB10 17. vtls005189835 File - Lines copied from The Sun, 7 1798. 17. ISYSARCHB10 Sept. 1798, on 'Gathering Moss From the Monument Dedicated by Pope to the Memory ..., 18. vtls005189836 File - An Ode by Laura Maria to Vanity. 18. ISYSARCHB10 19. vtls005189837 File - (A) A poem: 'The Decline of Wit'. 19. ISYSARCHB10 19b. vtls005189838 File - A poem: 'George and Dorothy, or 19b. ISYSARCHB10 the injured Ghost'. 20. vtls005189839 File - 'An elegy by Richard Jago, AM. 20. ISYSARCHB10 An intimate of Mr Shenstone.'. 21. vtls005189840 File - 'En elegy By the lamented Thomas 1769. 21. ISYSARCHB10 Chatterton', Bristol, 19 Nov, 22. vtls005189841 File - A stanza 'To Mrs B ... May 29 1773. 22. ISYSARCHB10 1773', 23. vtls005189842 File - A poem: 'To Lavinia a Quaker, 23. ISYSARCHB10 recommending Baptism to her'. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of
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